Approaches to Creativity: A Guide for Teachers

✍ Scribed by Orison Carlile, Anne Jordan

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 331
• Series: UK Higher Education OUP Humanities and Social Sciences Education OUP
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers an accessible introduction and a comprehensive guide to a range of ideas on creativity in education. The book provides an overview of the major theories related to creativity and explores the implications for policy and practice. The popular topic of creativity has given rise to a large number of theoretical positions, sometimes contradictory or contested. This book clarifies and organizes these approaches so that teachers understand where particular pedagogical and curricular practices originate and can develop them coherently.

✦ Table of Contents

Approaches to Creativity : A Guide for Teachers
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Constructs of creativity
3 Genealogy of creativity
4 Creativity in a social context
5 Creativity and the environment
6 Creativity and culture
7 Creativity and technology
8 Creative curriculum planning
9 Assessing creativity
10 Collaborative creativity
11 Creativity and the domains
12 Talent, expert performance and creativity
13 Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship
14 The creative teacher
15 Managing creativity
16 Tools for creativity
17 The creative learner
18 Creativity and cognition
19 Creativity as expression
20 Developmental theories and creativity
Author Index
Subject Index
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