Teaching for creativity is an approach to teaching that promotes students' independent thinking and creative abilities, "encouraging individuals to construct understandings that are new to them" (Peter Knight, Higher Education Academy website below). The following links offer insights into classroom environments that encourage creativity, present examples of teaching for creativity, and provide...

The study presented here investigated the influence of creative dance training on mental rotation performance. Two groups of second graders solved a paper-pencil mental rotation test and a motor performance test. Afterwards one group received five weeks of normal physical education lessons, while the other group received five weeks of creative dance training. At the end of the training period a...

Creative excellence in interdisciplinary research, education, and communication demands stamina and openmindedness. Stamina requires renewal, yet few opportunities for self-renewal are built into most systems. And as experts, our openmindedness is often stifled by our own sense of finishedness. This paper sketches out a strategy for sustained renewal and creative excellence: Each person assembl...

The main purpose of this study investigated the relationship between the components(control and leadership) and it was practical and unity study and included 300 staffs in the department of physical education department of Isfahan in 2011,150 persons using at stratified random sampling method was selected proportional to size. Collection data’s tools, cybernetic model questionnaires which its p...

The potential of mobile devices to support learning has been explored for some time; however, little attention has been paid to arts education and the active creation of content on mobile devices as a facilitator of learning experiences. Further, new features of mobile phones such as dual cameras open new possibilities for supporting learning in creative contexts. In this paper, the authors inv...

The study presented here investigated the influence of onehour creative dance training on the spatial ability of mental rotation. Two groups of first and second graders solved a paper-pencil mental rotation test. Afterwards, one group received one lesson of creative dance training while the other group attended the regular physical education lesson. At the end of the short training period all c...

J. P. Guilford (1950) asked in his inaugural address to the American Psychological Association why schools were not producing more creative persons. He also asked, “Why is there so little apparent correlation between education and creative productiveness” (p. 444)? This article presents a review of past and current research on the relation of education to creativity in students of preschool age...

This qualitative, quantitative mixed-method study explores how students’ motivation and interest in creative hands-on activities affected their conceptual understanding of science. The objectives of this research include developing a greater understanding about how creative activities, incorporated into the classroom as instructional strategies, increase student motivation and their learning or...

introduction. in order to improve planning, educational methodology, and evaluation in medical education, well-proportioned, exact and prospective programs are needed. without doubt, the main changes in medical education programs have resulted from researches performed in this area during the last decades. revision of medical education in iran began by the cultural revolution council by order o...