- 346 pages
- English
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About this book
Creativity and innovation are frequently mentioned as key skills for career and life success in today's world. This award-winning book brings together some of the world's best thinkers and researchers to offer insights on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
The new edition features fully updated chapters, including expanded coverage of exciting topics such as group creativity, ethics, development, makerspaces, and lessons from other fields. Educational applications are emphasized throughout.
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. With this book's comprehensive and readable approach, you'll be able to understand what creativity truly is (and isn't), how to foster it, and how it relates to intelligence, leadership, personality, and other concepts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- 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