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Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
By Mark A. Runco
Written by one of the leading scholars in the field of creativity, the mission of this book is to provide instructors teaching courses in creativity with a textbook that provides both comprehensive content coverage and state-of-the-art pedagogy. No other text currently provides both of these...
July 2011 | 978-0-8058-6385-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Exploring Children's Creative Narratives
Edited by Dorothy Faulkner, Elizabeth Coates
This collection of international research offers fresh perspectives on children’s creative processes and the expression of their creative imagination together with informed theoretical critiques of current educational practice. Drawing on detailed research evidence from innovative educational...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-56563-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning
Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Liora Bresler, Ken Jones
The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-54889-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Researching Creative Learning: Methods and Issues
Edited by Pat Thomson, Julian Sefton-Green
It is a common ambition in society and government to make young people more creative. These aspirations are motivated by two key concerns: to make experience at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic; and ensuring that young people are able and fit to leave education and contribute...
November 2010 | 978-0-415-54885-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Art and Creativity in Reggio Emilia: Exploring the Role and Potential of Ateliers in Early Childhood Education
By Vea Vecchi
This book explores the contribution of and art and creativity to early education, and examines the role of the atelier (an arts workshop in a school) and atelierista (an educator with an arts background) in the pioneering pre-schools of Reggio Emilia. It does so through the unique experience of Vea...
March 2010 | 978-0-415-46878-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Pedagogy of Creativity
By Anna Herbert
The Pedagogy of Creativity represents a groundbreaking study linking the pedagogy of classroom creativity with psychoanalytical theories. Taking a classroom-based example of poststructuralist methodology as its starting point, Anna Herbert’s investigation explores the relationship between...
February 2010 | 978-0-415-54887-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Creativity in the Classroom: Schools of Curious Delight, 4th Edition
By Alane Jordan Starko
The fourth edition of this well-known text continues the mission of its predecessors – to help teachers link creativity research and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. Part I (chs 1-5) includes information on models and theories of creativity, characteristics of creative...
July 2009 | 978-0-415-99707-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Creative Learning in the Primary School
By Bob Jeffrey, Peter Woods
Creative Learning in the Primary School uses ethnographic research to consider the main features of creative teaching and learning within the context of contemporary policy reforms. In particular, the authors are interested in the clash between two oppositional discourses - creativity and...
2008 | 978-0-415-46472-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Really Useful Creativity Book
By Dominic Wyse, Pam Dowson
What is creativity and how do we teach it? The Really Useful Creativity Book provides approaches and ideas that will enable children to develop their creativity. Written for the primary school teacher, student or trainee teacher, the book shows you how creativity can flourish in your classroom....
2008 | 978-0-415-45696-8 | Paperback (Routledge)