Creativity and Innovation: Theory, Research, and Practice

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Plucker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 371
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Creativity and innovation are frequently mentioned as key 21st-century skills for career and life success. Indeed, recent research provides evidence that the jobs of the future will increasingly require the ability to bring creative solutions to complex problems. The second edition of Creativity and Innovation:

• Brings together some of the world's best thinkers and researchers on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
• Features fully updated chapters.
• Provides a comprehensive but highly readable overview of exciting, important topics.
• Expands coverage of group creativity, ethics, development, Makerspaces, and lessons from other fields.
• Emphasizes the educational applications of creativity topics.

Creativity is often the spice of life, that little extra something that makes the mundane into the interesting, making our routines into fresh new approaches to our daily lives. Over the past quarter century, our understanding of creativity has advanced significantly―we know more about what it is (and isn't), we better understand how to foster it, and we have deeper, more complex knowledge about how it relates to intelligence, leadership, personality, and other constructs.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
About the Editor
About the Authors
Introduction: Creativity: It's Not Just for Hippies Anymore
Chapter 1 Defining Creativity
Chapter 2 Theories of Creativity
Hot Topic 1 Sociocultural Approaches to Creativity
Chapter 3 The Creative Personality: Current Understandings and Debates
Chapter 4 Why Do We Create?: The Roles of Mindset, Motivation, and Passion
Hot Topic 2 Creativity and Mental Illness: So Many Studies, So Many Scattered Conclusions
Hot Topic 3 Neuroscience of Creativity
Chapter 5 Cognition and Creative Thought
Hot Topic 4 Insight: Developing Creative Thinkers with Ahas and Uh-Ohs?
Chapter 6 A Pragmatic View of Teaching and Measuring Creativity Inside Digital Media Design
Hot Topic 5 Creative Efficiency: More Ideas, Better, Faster!
Chapter 7 Creative Productivity across the Life Span
Hot Topic 6 Development of Creativity: Different Phases for Different Ages
Hot Topic 7 Pretend Play and Creativity
Chapter 8 Investing in Creativity in Students: The Long and Short (Term) of It
Hot Topic 8 Creativity in Groups: Catalyst or Complication?
Chapter 9 Teachers and Creativity
Hot Topic 9 Creativity Assessment
Hot Topic 10 Failure and Creativity
Chapter 10 Why Are We Creative?: Novel and Effective Products
Hot Topic 11 Makerspaces: Supporting Creativity and Innovation by Design
Hot Topic 12 Creative Articulation
Hot Topic 13 Ethical Reflection as a Part of Creative Problem-solving
Chapter 11 What Teachers Should Know about Creativity in Business
Chapter 12 Leadership and Creativity: What Leaders Can Do to Facilitate Creativity in Organizations
Chapter 13 A Sociocultural Perspective on Creativity and Technology: New Synergies for Education