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CREATIVITY
A Handbook for Teachers

by Ai-Girl Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Creativity: A Handbook for Teachers covers topics related to creativity research, development, theories and practices. It serves as a reference for academics, teacher educators, teachers, and scientists to stimulate further “dialogue” on ways to enhance creativity.

 
Table of Contents
 
Readership: Academic, creativity institutions/centres.
 
“This book will be useful for educators to provide opportunities for creative self expression, appropriately reward creative behavior, model creative behavior, and avoid overemphasizing blind conformity and the rigid thinking that might preclude creative behavior.”
Mark Runco

California State University, Fullerton and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
 
“I am glad that the editor of the book has initiated and put together this timely, useful and relevant book for teachers who seek to understand the many meanings and aspects of creativity and to nurture creativity in their students.”
Suat-Khoh Lim-Teo
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 
“In doing research on creativity, the authors are involved in one way or another in these processes and I think it has made them more creative in her approach towards life. Congratulations on this piece of work.”
Noraini Mohd. Noor
International Islamic University, Malaysia
 
“It is so pleasing to be informed that scholars in Asia-Pacific region attempted to edit a book on creativity and strategies for nurturing creativity. It is an ambitious attempt to synthesize existing literature on creativity and its education for students. I trust the book will contribute to the development of the education for nurturing creativity to a great extent.”
Seokhee Cho
National Research Center on Gifted Education, Korean Educational Development Institute
 
648pp
Pub. date: May 2007
eISBN: 9789812770868
 
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