The author is concerned about the overemphasis on form and techniques in teaching literature, and suggests that teachers encourage the release of emotion and feelings in their students by means of literature and written expression. (SP)

Thematic fantasies of highly creative adolescents were rated by clinical psychologists as exhibiting greater primary-process thinking than the thematic reports of matched controls; they also included a greater proportion of unlikely combinations, fluid transformations, visual representations, magic occurrences, and contradictions. (Author)

Challenges administrators to be more creative, original, and imaginative. (JM)

Uses concepts of creativity, transformative learning, imagination, and dialog to explore hidden patterns affecting the inability to write. Describes the use of reflection and imagery to make meaning of experience and unblock writing processes. (SK)

This paper views creativity as the combination of the conditions of interaction and transformation-imagination-fantasy. These conditions operate together, simultaneously, in order to define the complex process of creativity. (DB)

The author shows how one child's creativity is destroyed in the pursuit of correct capitalization, neat margins, and good punctuation. (BD)

This article deals with a comparison of the congruent and divergent aspects of expressionistic and phenomenological theories of aesthetics and some implications for aesthetic education. (Author)

This study attempted to assess directly whether children who had had an imaginary companion were significantly different from those who had not, in intelligence, creativity, and waiting ability, each of which had been identified in previous research as an important correlate of this phenomenon. A total of 84 children participated in this study,…

Suggested are ways to stimulate imagination, creativity, and imagery in children. Recommended for developing imagination are the thinking strategies of breaking away from the usual and commonplace, restructuring familiar elements, and synthesizing elements. Discussed are the production of creative analogies (such as personal, direct, symbolic, and…

This book is a study of developments in the field of creativity. The major topics include: (1) creativity as related to intelligence and personality; (2) the structure of intellect; (3) research into convergent and divergent thinking; (4) educational factors in creativity; (5) creativity and environment; and (6) current trends in creativity…

The creative act arises out of a need to explore human experience, and mathematics is a locus of creative activity. Mathematics should be taught to show the value of imagination and reasoning. (MT)

The description of the curriculum of a university course designed to engage the deep structure of the creative process. First presented in 1984, the course has been given to fine arts majors and candidates for the B.Ed. and M.Ed. degrees. The curriculum is summarized in twelve concepts and then described under the topics "Primordial Images,"…

Are creativity and imaginative thinking impeded by the emphasis that many American schools place on cooperative learning and collaborative thinking today? This paper explores past and present philosophies concerning individualism and creativity as they relate to education in the USA. A person's ability to individuate is based on the premise that…

Described a project in which students learned to use ordinary discarded cans for use in an art class. (RK)