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More Ways Than One: Fostering Creativity in the Classroom

By Arthur J. Cropley

Book information

Publisher
Ablex Publishing
Year
1992
ISBN
9780893919399, 089391939X, 0893917893, 9780893917890
LCC
LB1590.5 .C76 1992
Open Library ID
OL1711389M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7305166 bytes)
Series
Creativity Research
Pages
144\143
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05
Психологические дисциплины;Психология творчества;П

Description

Current conceptualizations of children's thinking tend to be unneccesarily narrow, and to focus on what might be called ''convergent'' thinking. As a result, invention and innovation are often underemphasized in schools. This text aims to encourage a broad understanding of intellect, and attempts to help teachers to recognize and foster more varied forms of intellectual activity in their students. It offers a review of recent theory on creativity, conceptualizing this as a matter of getting ideas, trying the new, branching out and the like, rather than of producing artistic or scientific products. It discusses the factors in the classroom which block this more ''divergent'' kind of thinking and suggests practical ways through which teachers can promote bolder and more innovative intellectual activity in their students. This involves not merely cognitive factors (thinking, remembering, reasoning) but also motivation (courage and willingness), personality (openness to the new, self-confidence), and social factors (nonconformity, ability to communicate ideas). The text is applied in orientation, contains a large number of examples and case studies, and aims at providing practicing teachers with guidelines.

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