"Cultivating Creativity in Babies, Toddlers and Young Children" shows how each of us can promote creativity in children. It explores the journey children take in developing their creativity, and helps child care students and practitioners to nurture creativity in babies, toddlers and young children. Written by a leading expert in an integrated approach to early childhood development and learning, "Cultivating Creativity" links theory and practice to provide a clear framework for this difficult, but vital, aspect of development and learning.
Creativity in the Classroom: Schools of Curious Delight, 4th Edition
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 people, and talent development. Part II (chapters 6-10) includes strategies explicitly designed to teach creative thinking, to weave creative thinking into content area instruction, and to organize basic classroom activities (grouping, lesson planning, assessment,..
Cross-Train Your Brain: A Mental Fitness Program for Maximizing Creativity and Achieving
A Mental Fitness Program for Maximizing Creativity and Achieving Success When you change the way you think, you can change your life. That's the message and the goal of this dynamic mental workout created by creativity guru Stephen Eiffert. Cross-Train Your Brain shows readers how to break through the constraints of career pigeonholing, tedious routine, and rote learning to recapture the power of their true creative natures. Creativity is not just the realm of artists and inventors.
Jeremy Sutton is one of the world's premier Painter artists (www.JeremySutton.com and www.PaintboxJ.com), and in this brand new edition of his best-selling Painter Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, he shows you the methods and techniques he's developed over the years to perfect his art and earn him the title of Corel Painter Master.
Creativity is increasingly seen as central to good learning and teaching throughout the curriculum. This book examines the political and educational context behind such developments and looks at dilemmas faced by trainee teachers as they begin their teaching practice. Demonstrating what creativity is, how it evolves and how it can be nurtured in various teaching contexts, it will enable trainees to develop creativity in their teaching role and in their pupils learning.
