What do leading experts and researchers think about developing creativity in the classroom?
This book offers amazing practical advice and suggestions from various perspectives, addressing a number of important issues related to creativity and talent:
How does brainstorming in the classroom increase content knowledge?
What learning practices are effective?
How do we integrate creative and critical thinking in the curriculum?
In their brilliant hypothesis, Bigotto and Kaufman outline twenty key points about fostering creativity in the classroom.
This book is a valuable addition to the field of creativity and its teaching methods.
Sandra Ross
Western Reserve University
"Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom" is an essential addition to the library of every educator interested in nurturing creative students. Its chapters include the latest insights from leading experts in creativity and learning, along with easy-to-read structures for potential problems. It is accompanied by guidelines and best practices for ensuring that classrooms are environments that foster creativity. Buy this book, read it, and apply its twenty points about creativity. Lisa Smith, Faculty of Education
University of Otago, New Zealand
Ronald Bigotto and James Kaufman invited a diverse group of experts to discuss their contemporary and nuanced ideas in writing on the topic of classroom creativity, and the results were largely unexpected.
The book's recurring themes emphasize that developing students' creative thinking requires expert guidance, engaging in structured thought processes, perseverance, deep content knowledge, and risk-taking within realistic constraints. Using rich language and rich examples, these chapters offer evidence-based advice on experiences that awaken creativity in children, along with the optimal timing, conditions, and goals of these activities.
Rena Subotnik
Director of the Center for Psychology, American Psychological Association
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