Creativity and Education, 4v: (Sage Library of Educational Thought & Practice)

This four-volume Major Work brings together seminal articles and research studies in the field of creativity, drawing from educational and psychological research. The collection focuses on creativity in the classroom, the roles of educators and students, how creative processes relate to education and learning, and an analysis of the socio-cultural contexts for creativity in education. Critical issues, such as the relationship between intelligence and creativity, and motivation, are also explored. Articles are supported with a context-setting introduction from renowned creativity scholar Mark Runco.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME ONE: DEFINITIONS OF CREATIVITY FOR EDUCATION The Standard Definition of Creativity - Mark A. Runco and Garrett J. Jaeger Still Useful after All These Years: A Review of Wallach & Kogan’s Modes of Thinking in Young Children (1965) and Wallach & Wing’s The Talented Student (1969) - Mark A. Runco Intelligence? Creativity? A Parsimonious Reinterpretation of the Wallach-Kogan Data - Lee J. Cronbach Children′s Divergent Thinking and Creative Ideation - Mark A. Runco Convergent and Divergent Measurement of Creativity in Children - William C. Ward Comparison of Competing Theories about Ideation and Creativity - Ivonne Chand O’Neal, Mark A. Runco and Sue Hyeon Paek The Threshold Theory Regarding Creativity and Intelligence: An Empirical Test with Gifted and Nongifted Children - Mark A. Runco and Robert S. Albert The Relationship between Creativity and Androgyny When Moderated by an Intelligence Threshold - Jodi B. Weinstein and Philip Bobko Cognition and Creativity - Mark A. Runco and Ivonne Chand A Longitudinal Examination of the Fourth Grade Slump in Creativity - E. Paul Torrance Role of Hemisphericity in Performance on Selected Measures of Creativity - E. Paul Torrance and Salah Mourad The Role of Creativity in Identification of the Gifted and Talented - E. Paul Torrance Personal Creativity: Definition and Developmental Issues - Mark A. Runco Education for Creative Potential - Mark A. Runco Developmental Trends in the Evaluative and Divergent Thinking of Children - Robyn E. Charles and Mark A. Runco The Creativity Crisis: The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking - Kyung Hee Kim Motivation and Creativity: The Context Effect - David Elkind, Joann Deblinger and David Adler Creativity and the Finding and Solving of Real-World Problems - Shawn M. Okuda, Mark A. Runco and Dale E. Berger A Hierarchical Framework for the Study of Creativity - Mark A. Runco Creativity and Education - Mark A. Runco Education and Creativity - Daniel Fasko, Jr Operant Theories of Insight, Originality, and Creativity - Daniel Fasko, Jr Creativity: The Hub of Real Achievement - Mark A. Runco An Analysis of Creativity - Jill Forster Creative Thinking and Creative Performance in Israeli Students - Mel Rhodes VOLUME TWO: TEACHERS & TEACHING AND ENHANCEMENT Obstacles to Personal Creativity among University Students - Eunice M.L. Soriano de Alencar Teaching Creativity: Current Findings, Trends, and Controversies in the Psychology of Creativity - Dean Keith Simonton Two-Dimensional Education: Fostering the “Prepared Mind” for Creativity - Arthur Cropley and Iourri Gribov Evaluating the Creativity of Children′s Ideas - Mark A. Runco and Luiz Vega The Evaluative, Valuative, and Divergent Thinking of Children - Mark A. Runco Original Thinking in Preschool Children: A Validation of Ideational Fluency Measures - EunSook Hong and Roberta M. Milgram Curiosity of Gifted Children and Performance on Timed and Untimed Tests of Creativity - E. Paul Torrance Relationships among Private Speech and Creativity in Head Start and Low–Socioeconomic Status Preschool Children - Martha Daugherty and C. Stephen White Part One: Teachers Creativity: Asset or Burden in the Classroom? - Erik L. Westby and V.L. Dawson Parents’ and Teachers’ Implicit Theories of Children’s Creativity: A Cross-Cultural Perspective - Mark A. Runco, Diane J. Johnson and M.K. Raina Teaching Creativity at the College Level: A Synthesis of Curricular Components Perceived as Important by Instructors - Kay S. Bull, Diane Montgomery and Lynda Baloche Implicit Theories of Creativity: Teachers’ Perception of Student Characteristics in Hong Kong - David W. Chan and Lai-Kwan Chan A Cross-Cultural Comparison: Teachers’ Conceptualizations of Creativity - Ji Zhou, Jiliang Shen, Xinghua Wang, Heinz Neber and Ikuma Johjia Student and Faculty Perceptions of Innovative Teaching - Kristina Jaskyte, Heidi Taylor and Robert Smariga Encouraging Imagination and Creativity in the Teaching Profession - Morwenna Griffiths Predicting the Creativity of Elementary School Children (1958-80) – and the Teacher Who “Made a Difference” - E. Paul Torrance Creative Thinking as a Predictor of Teacher Effectiveness in Higher Education - Nitza Davidovitch and Roberta M. Milgram Part Two: Enhancement Problem Finding and the Enhancement of Creativity - J.W. Getzels Enhancement of Creativity - Jonathan A. Plucker, Mark A. Runco and C. Boyd Hegarty For the Lifestyle and a Love of Creativity: Australian Students’ Motivations for Studying Journalism - Folker Hanusch, Katrina Clifford, Kayt Davies, Peter English, Janet Fulton, Mia Lindgren, Penny O’Donnell, Jenna Price, Ian Richards and Lawrie Zion Tactics and Strategies for Creativity - Mark A. Runco Improving Creative Problem-Solving in a Sample of Third Culture Kids - Young Ju Lee, Sherry K. Bain and R. Steve McCallum Maximal Performance on Divergent Thinking Tests by Gifted, Talented, and Nongifted Children - Mark A. Runco VOLUME THREE: EXPRESSIONS AND DOMAINS OF CREATIVITY Divergent Thinking and Creative Performance in Gifted and Nongifted Children - Mark A. Runco The Creativity of Children’s Art - Mark A. Runco Lessons from Using iPads to Understand Young Children’s Creativity - Lorna Arnott, Deirdre Grogan and Pauline Duncan Can Computers Help Stimulate Creativity? Training Implications from a Postgraduate MBA Experience - Tudor Rickards Injecting Creativity into Teaching Simulation Modeling to Computer Science Students - Paul Fishwick Fostering College Students’ Creative Capacity through Computer-Supported Knowledge Building - Pei-Yi Lin, Yu-Hui Chang, Hsien-Ta Lin and Huang-Yao Hong A New Way to Play Music Together: The Continuator in the Classroom - Laura Ferrari and Anna Rita Addessi Probing More Deeply into the Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner Introducing Creativity in the Ensemble Setting: National Standards Meet Comprehensive Musicianship - Charles E. Norris Multiple Intelligences Go to School: Educational Implications of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner and Thomas Hatch Teaching for the Golden Egg: Creativity - Christine Cozzens Hayes Not All Musicians Are Creative: Creativity Requires More Than Simply Playing Music - Erin E. Sovansky, Mareike B. Wieth, Andrea P. Francis and Samuel D. McIlhagga Nurturing Visual Arts Talent - Sandra I. Kay How Domains Constrain Creativity: The Case of Traditional Chinese and Western Painting - Jin Li and Howard Gardner Effects of Self-Efficacy on Social Entrepreneurship in Education: A Correlational Research - Tugba Konakli Perceptions and Reality: Creativity in the Marketing Classroom - Denny E. McCorkle, Janice M. Payan, James Reardon and Nathan D. Kling Academic versus Creative Abilities in Mathematics: Two Components of the Same Construct? - Nava L. Livne and Roberta M. Milgram Orchestral Performance and the Footprint of Mindfulness - Ellen Langer, Timothy Russell and Noah Eisenkraft Teaching Students to Solve Insight Problems: Evidence for Domain Specificity in Creativity Training - Gayle T. Dow and Richard E. Mayer Creative Out-of-School Activities in Intellectually Gifted Adolescents as Predictors of Their Life Accomplishments in Young Adults: A Longitudinal Study - Roberta M. Milgram and Eunsook Hong The Effect of Bilingualism on Creativity: Developmental and Educational Perspectives - Mark Leikin Understanding the Ensemble Pianist: A Theoretical Framework - Dimitra Kokotsaki Investigating the Assessment of Singers in a Music College Setting: The Students’ Perspective - Dimitra Kokotsaki, Jane W. Davidson and Daniela Coimbra Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as Predictors of Personal and Public Achievement: A Fifty-Year Follow-Up - Mark A. Runco, Garnet Millar, Selcuk Acar and Bonnie Cramond VOLUME FOUR: SPECIAL POPULATIONS, INCLUDING THE GIFTED, & STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, CULTURE & SETTINGS Creativity and Working Memory in Gifted Students With and Without Characteristics of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder: Lifting the Mask - C. Matthew Fugate, Sydney S. Zentall and Marcia Gentry An Investigation into the Psychosocial Functioning of Creative Children: The Impact of ADHD Symptomatology - Dione Healey and Julia J. Rucklidge Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Creativity: What Is the Connection? - B. Cramond Creative Personality and Anticreative Environment for High School Dropouts - Kyung Hee Kim and Michael F. Hull Three Myths? The Over-Representation of the Gifted among Dropouts, Delinquents, and Suicides - Susanne P. Lajoie and Bruce M. Shore Creativity as an Educational Objective for Disadvantaged Students - Mark A. Runco Concrete and Verbal Reinforcement in Creative Thinking of Disadvantaged Students - R.M. Milgram and S. Feingold Characteristics of Creativity Change in University Students - Daiva Grakauskaitè-Karkockienè Measuring Cognitive and Dispositional Characteristics of Creativity in Elementary Students - Romina M.J. Proctor and Paul C. Burnett Part One: Gifted Students “Torturing Data until They Confess”: An Analysis of the Analysis of the Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness - Joseph S. Renzulli What Makes Giftedness? Re-Examining a Definition - J. Renzulli A General Theory for the Development of Creative Productivity through the Pursuit of Ideal Acts of Learning - Joseph S. Renzulli New Dimensions in Creativity - Mark A. Runco Is Every Child Gifted? - Mark A. Runco Creative Giftedness: A Multivariate Investment Approach - Robert J. Sternberg and Todd I. Lubart Part Two: Culture & Setting Lessons about Giftedness and Creativity from a Nation of 115 Million Overachievers - E. Paul Torrance Dogmatism, Locus of Control, and Creativity in Children Educated in the Soviet Union, the United States, and Israel - Arie Avarim and Roberta M. Milgram Comparisons of the Creative Class and Regional Creativity with Perceptions of Community Support and Community Barriers - Mark A. Runco, Selcuk Acar, W. Keith Campbell, Garrett Jaeger, Jessica McCain and Brittany Gentile Cumulative and Proximal Influences on the Social Environment and Children′s Creative Potential - Stephanie Z. Dudek, M.G. Strobel and Mark A. Runco Education, Creativity and the Economy of Passions: New Forms of Educational Capitalism - Michael A. Peters

About the Author :
Mark Runco earned his PhD in Psychology, with a dissertation that focused on creativity. He has studied creativity ever since and is currently the Distinguished Research Fellow of the American Institute of Behavioral Research and Technology. He is also Editor of the Creativity Research Journal and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Creativity. His textbook on creativity has been translated into approximately a dozen languages and is in its second edition. He teaches a range of classes on creativity, including "Educating and Enhancing Creativity," "Diversity and Creativity," "Assessment of Creativity," and "Creativity: What it is and what it is not."