Tag: creativity
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Creativity: Asset or Burden in the Classroom
Creativity Research Journal: Creativity: Asset or Burden in the Classroom (HT: Marginal Revolution) One of the most consistent findings in educational studies of creativity has been that teachers dislike personality traits associated with creativity. Research has indicated that teachers prefer traits that seem to run counter to creativity, such as conformity and unquestioning acceptance of…
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Don’t Conform To Platitudes against Conformity
GoodWordEditing.com (Marcus Goodyear): Don’t Conform To Platitudes against Conformity. I love this post. It ties in with some things I have written in the past about polarity management. I hope I know L.L. well enough to pick on her in my title. I love her post about conformity. Here’s a different thought. (Does that make…
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What Kind of Genius Are You?
What Kind of Genius Are You? is a very interesting article from Wired. (Hat Tip to Raymond Ward) Daniel Pink writes about economist David Galenson who studied art to learn about the nature of creativity. He found two types of innovation. What he has found is that genius – whether in art or architecture or…