Creativity in the Classroom: Introductions to Creativity

Tan provides a practical and applied introduction to creativity. Part 1 will provide you a conceptual repertoire to discuss creativity in more. It will introduce you to applied research on creativity and enable you to understand new research about creativity. Section V will introduce you to specifically to research on adults. The book will introduce you to models like the Thinking Skills models and others. Part 3 of the text will introduce you to how creativity and critical thinking tie into transdisciplinary and work force contexts.

Chapter 1 of this text describes what is creativity and how differs from innovation and imagination from the view of educational psychology. The work focuses on multiple types of creativity and provides some examples.

Chapter 2: This chapter will introduce you to some major constructs to understand creativity as a process in your classroom and to identify when interactions and experiences that are tied to creativity processes occur.

Singer explains how creativity appears in different fields of study and disciplines. Chapter 8: Creativity in practice explores creativity in everyday experiences and reasoning. Chapter 9 explores creativity in Science, Technology, and Mathematics. Chapter 3 of the text focuses on how we learn to be creative and how this aligns with evolutionary and psychological processes.