Creativity

Have you ever had got/did a school assignment or activity that was boring, that you thought it was dumb, the assignment didn't give you any chance to be creative? A lot of schools assignments are boring for kids. For example; some schools/classes can give very boring assignments, making it so you feel like you don't want to do them. Some classrooms are just plain boring to be in. Some schools don't even provide students times to be creative. Here are some reasons why. Schools can give some very…

Environmental context According to Sternberg and Lubart, creativity differs among individuals because it is difficult to get all six attributes working together in all individuals. Osborn (1953) proposed that creative problem solving requires critical intelligence and creative intelligence which correspond with…

do something fundamental by thinking it through and applying his knowledge garnered to observation and experience. Whether it was how to start a fire, or carve out a better wooden wheel, or making a better mousetrap, man has been innovating with creativity since the dawn of time. In the early days of civilization, man used their technology for the benefit of the society as a whole. In…

When one watches a dancer leap or glide across a stage, the observer’s thoughts may not immediately be directed towards the metaphoric implications of each movement, but these metaphoric processes operate as a fundamental characteristic of dance. Physical gestures are an innate characteristic of the way people communicate with each other as they “…can reveal aspects of meaning that are not, or even cannot, be present in words alone” (Kövecses 72). Dance, at its simplest definition, is but an…

afforded equal opportunities for success within the field of art and art education? How does emphasis placed on early-life course development neglect late stage? What does it mean to be creative later in life? How are current models and tests of creativity inadequate in assessing older adults? How can art practice be a vehicle for coping with and adapting to these age related losses in physical, mental, material, and social assets? The President 's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities…

Reflection essay #4 Our discussion about relationship between creativity and spatial reasoning reminds me of a study of “Mozart effect” (Rauscher et al. 1993), which showing that music by Mozart can temporary improves experimental subjects’ spatial reasoning ability comparing to the control group. Of course, the study is not promoting Mozart’s work. Some recent work shows that the music with seizure frequencies close to the working frequencies of brain can help with stimulating brain activity.…

Journalist’s Story Summary The journalist in this article claims that, based on the research of the scientific article, the public views creativity as being linked to masculine traits (e.g., being risky and daring). This, based again on research, suggests that in many realms of the job force, the work done by men is more likely to be viewed as being more creative and desirable than the work done by females. Therefore, the journalist’s claim is associative because the journalist states, “Men more…

there that I came up with. Schools should not have uniforms because it gets rid of students creativity, teachers get more focused on if the uniform is correct, and it's expensive. First of all, when uniforms are in schools it gets rid of students’ creativity. The article "Uniforms Limit Number of Outlets for Creativity and Self Expression” from Linn Hoofnagle explains the ways how uniforms take away creativity and self expression. According to the text, ”First of all, the most obvious point…

Andreasen reflects lights on the facts that research designed to examine the relationship between creativity and mental illnesses (not exactly illness but the intensity of mood) must confront multiple challenges. How should creativity be defined? Only a restricted number of studies have examined highly creative individuals using personal interviews and a noncreative comparison group. The majority of these have examined…

To foster children’s creative thinking let them talk about their experiences on what they have done to build upon their interest. Practitioners might use snapshots of children creativity to start a conversation. As part of the conversation, the practitioner might offer words and phrases to assist children in developing language which they can use when talking about what they did, said or made and learned. (Supporting learning and…