Reading time: 15 minutes · Key authors: Amabile & Pratt · Amabile · Wang, Kang & Choi Most organizations declare that they value creativity. Very few have a coherent strategy for cultivating it. The result is predictable: creative people are hired, placed in environments that suppress creativity, and then blamed for not innovating enough. Teresa […]
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Practical articles on creativity for educators and professionals: techniques and working methods grounded in scientific research.
Flow and Creativity: How to Create the Conditions for Your Best Ideas to Emerge
Reading time: 15 minutes · Key authors: Csikszentmihalyi · Nakamura & Csikszentmihalyi · Bartholomeyczik et al. · Barnett & Vasiu · Beaty et al. There are moments at work that almost everyone recognizes but few can name: when a task completely absorbs your attention, when time seems to accelerate or disappear, when ideas arrive with […]
What Is Creativity According to Psychology: Definition, Theories, and Main Models
Reading time: 18 minutes · Key authors: Guilford · Runco & Jaeger · Amabile · Csikszentmihalyi · Rhodes · Wallas · Sternberg & Lubart · Kaufman & Beghetto Few words are used as frequently and with as little agreement about their meaning as creativity. In a single meeting you might hear that the new product […]
How to Assess Creativity in University Students (Without Falling Into Subjectivity)
Reading time: 15 minutes · Key authors: Guilford · Torrance · Alabbasi et al. · Karunarathne & Calma · Xu & Tognolini · Jönsson & Panadero There is a problem that almost every university educator who has tried to work with creativity in the classroom has encountered at some point: assessment time arrives, and the […]
Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking: What They Are and Why Both Matter in the Classroom
Reading time: 15 minutes · Key authors: Guilford · Runco & Acar · Xia et al. · de Vink et al. · Quinn, Rawlings & Roome There is a question that any educator who wants to teach creativity will inevitably face: how do I explain to my students what creative thinking is without it sounding […]