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CREATIVITY A Handbook for Teachers CONTENTS FRONT MATTER i Part One: Exploring the Nature of Creativity – Section I: Conceptions of Creativity Creativity as a Habit Robert Sternberg 3 Creativity and Motivation in the Classroom: A Social Psychological and Multi-Cultural Perspective Beth A. Hennessey 27 High Ability and Creativity: Conceptual and Developmental Perspectives Kurt A. Heller 47 Creativity and its Cultivation Jiannong Shi, Xiaojun Qu and Tongran Liu 65 Part One: Exploring the Nature of Creativity – Section II: Research in Creativity The Biological Basis of Creativity Martin Reuter 79 Creativity Research and The Classroom: From Pitfalls to Potential Ronald A. Beghetto 101 Part One: Exploring the Nature of Creativity – Section III: Identification and Assessment The Two Torrance Creativity Tests: The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement Kyung-Hee Kim 117 Identification of Talents Christoph Perleth and Annett Wilde 143 Assessing Creativity: A Componential Model Klaus K. Urban 167 Part Two: Nurturing Creativity – Section IV: Experiences with Children with Talents Education Toward the Future: Asking Questions Erika Landau 187 Creativity in Special Education Ching-Chih Kuo 193 Using Assessment to Foster Creativity Arthur Cropley and David Cropley 209 Possibility Thinking in the Early Years and Primary Classroom Anna Craft 231 Training Methods of Creative Learning and Practice Horst Kasper 251 Use of Word Symbol Puzzles to Foster Creativity Among Students R. Subramaniam, Ngoh-Khang Goh and Lian-Sai Chia 263 Part Two: Nurturing Creativity – Section V: Experience with Adults in Enhancing Thinking Skills for Creative Problem Solving Enhancing Thinking and Leadership Skills through Creative Problem Solving Gerard J. Puccio and Susan Keller-Mathers 281 Cultivating Critical and Creative Thinking Skills Siew-Lang Kong 303 The Japanese Creativity Education and Creativity Techniques: A Perspective from the Enterprise Makoto Takahashi 327 Part Three: Creativity in Contexts – Section VI: Disciplinary Perspectives Academic and Global Contexts for Creativity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Donald Ambrose 343 Technology-Enhanced Creativity Effie Lai-Chong Law 363 Programmer Creativity Gary Greenfield 385 Automated Assessment of Creative Solutions in Mathematics through Comparative Parsing Nava L. Livne, Oren E. Livne and Charles A. Wight 399 Part Three: Creativity in Contexts – Section VII: Self and Other Perspectives Fostering Creative Behavior in the Asian Classroom: The Role of Self-Regulatory and Self Processes Wan-Har Chong 423 Promoting Children's Personal Strengths: Positive Psychology Goes to School Albert Kienfie Liau 441 Creativity in Rehabilitation Psychology Chih-Chin Chou, Julie Chronistor and Fong Chan 467 Constructive Creativity in Education Ai-Girl Tan and Shyh-Shin Wong 485 Creativity and the Brain Wlodzislaw Duch 507 Culture and Creativity in Organizations: An Integration of Commonalities, Divergences, and Levels Keith James and Jacob Eisenberg 531 Epilogue: Creativity Research, Ethics and Health Ai-Girl Tan, Lai-Chong Law and Shyh-Shin Wong 551 BACK MATTER 559 Back

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