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Chen, Li-Tsu – 1998
Researchers have found a strong relationship between children's graphic imagery and the visual sources surrounding them. Children's imagination is not simply a personal, subjective mind state, but is strongly attached to visual and cultural traditions. Based on this concept, a study explored how children's imagination is related to their…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Fantasy
Peak, Rogene; Hull, Connie – 1983
In order to assess the effect of relaxation training and imagination exercises on the creativity of elementary-age students, 94 children in first through fourth grades were randomly assigned to either a treatment or control group. Prior to the treatment, all students were pretested on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Children in the…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity Research, Creativity Tests, Elementary Education
DeLuca, Diana Macintyre, Ed. – 1986
Essays focusing on creativity in the humanities and sciences are contained in this proceedings of the Creativity and Science Conference. The presentors, who represented many academic disciplines, agreed that creativity is as essential to the scientist as to the humanist and that one can prepare for it but not instruct or be instructed in achieving…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Creativity, Essays, Fine Arts
Apseloff, Marilyn – 1979
There has been a remarkable amount of production and publication of children's poetry since the 1960s. One of the early, popular anthologies of children's poetry was "Miracles" (Simon & Shuster, 1966), with poems from English-speaking countries revealing how imaginative children could be and their use of metaphors. "The Me Nobody Knows: Children's…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Greenfield, Patricia – 1982
In order to test the strengths of radio as a learning tool for children, research was conducted in which radio and television were compared in relation to their abilities to stimulate children's imaginations and to transmit information to children. The research involved a series of studies in which children were presented with two unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Children, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Koste, Virginia Glasgow – 1978
The purpose of this book is to help parents and teachers recognize and understand dramatic play in childhood as a process whereby the child acts out human experience in an attempt to order, clarify, and understand it. Written by a person experienced in theatre and drama, the book considers the following aspects of dramatic play: the importance of…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Games, Creative Development, Creative Dramatics
Carey, James Otto – 1976
The purpose of this study was threefold: to determine whether adding a mnemonic to systematically designed instruction would improve verbal retention, to establish whether retention is better for concrete or abstract information, and to determine whether mental imagery or verbal elaboration is more effective for learning concrete or abstract…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Winzenz, Marilyn – 1977
Extensive research has proven that the functions of the two hemispheres of the brain tend to be qualitatively different. The left hemisphere, which for most people is dominant, is the major controller of speech, reading, and writing; it is the hemisphere toward which education traditionally has been directed. The right hemisphere excels in…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Diagnostic Teaching
Khatena, Joe – 1976
Reviewed are major directions in creativity research in the following areas: theories of creativity; definitions; instruments to measure creativity; nurturing creativity; the disabled, disturbed, and disadvantaged; cross cultural patterns; creative imagination imagery; and measuring creative imagination imagery. (LS)
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Research, Creativity Tests, Cross Cultural Studies
Minuchin, Patricia; And Others – 1969
This first volume in a series from the Research Division of Bank Street College of Education reports the results of a research project which explores the effects different kinds of education have on learning and child development. Fourth-grade pupils in four different urban schools were selected as subjects; each school differed in educational…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Cognitive Development, Educational Environment
Dellas, Marie – 1971
The purpose of this study was to determine whether creativity could be facilitated by a training method based on a salient characteristic of the creative individual, namely, his ability to synthesize elements from two disparate psychological entities: (1) visual experiences; and (2) emotional states. A four-session training program is described in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Creative Activities, Creative Development
Holbrook, David; And Others – 1966
This paper asserts the central function of creativity as a basis of approach to English teaching as an art. Creative writing is discussed as one attempt to discover, release, and enrich the potentialities of being and to give order and structure to the inner world of the child. In order to develop creativity in children, teachers are encouraged…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Expression, Conference Reports, Creative Activities
Oregon Univ., Eugene. Oregon Elementary English Project. – 1971
This curriculum guide is intended to introduce elementary school students to the reading and writing of poetry. Poems by recognized poets make up the bulk of the selections in the guide, but some poems by elementary school students are also included. The writers hope that the teacher will use the guide to encourage students to write their own…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Creative Writing, Curriculum Guides
PALMER, EDWARD L. – 1966
AN INVESTIGATION WAS UNDERTAKEN TO EXPLORE THE INSTRUCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF JEAN PIAGET'S POSITION ON EQUILIBRATION. ONE PURPOSE WAS TO TEST THE GENERAL HYPOTHESIS THAT THE MISCONCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN, WHEN DISPLACED BY EVIDENCE CONTRARY TO THE MISCONCEPTIONS, GIVE RISE TO COGNITIVE CONFLICTS. THE RESULTS, IN GENERAL, CONFIRM THIS HYPOTHESIS. A…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Dirlam, David K.; Millar, James A. – 1976
The effects of slide photos on ideational fluency in 240 children in grades IV, VII and IX were studied. Children listed uses of tires and knives and similarities between potatoes and carrots, and cats and mice. It was reasoned that stimula which attract attention too closely to physical characteristics of objects directly under consideration…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Concept Formation, Creativity, Creativity Research
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