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Creativity and Children's Literature - New Ways to Encourage Divergent Thinking (Paperback)
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Creativity and Children's Literature - New Ways to Encourage Divergent Thinking (Paperback)
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Today's students need to be able to do more than score well on
tests-they must be creative thinkers and problem solvers. The tools
in this book will help teachers and parents start students on the
path to becoming innovative, successful individuals in the 21st
century workforce. The children in classrooms today will soon
become adult members of society: they will need to apply divergent
thinking skills to be effective in all aspects of their lives,
regardless of their specific occupation. How well your students
meet complicated challenges and take advantage of the opportunities
before them decades down the road will depend largely upon the kind
of thinking they are trained and encouraged to do today. This book
provides a game plan for busy librarians and teachers to develop
their students' abilities to arrive at new ideas by utilizing
children's books at hand. Following an introduction in which the
author defines divergent thinking, discusses its characteristics,
and establishes its vital importance, chapters dedicated to types
of literature for children such as fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction
present specific titles and relevant activities geared to fostering
divergent thinking in young minds. Parents will find the
recommendations of the kinds of books to read with their children
and explanations of how to engage their children in conversations
that will help their creative thinking skills extremely beneficial.
The book also includes a case study of a fourth-grade class that
applied the principles of divergent thinking to imagine innovative
designs and come up with new ideas while studying a social
studies/science unit on ecology. Demonstrates how to use children's
literature specifically to foster divergent thinking in students in
school and at home Provides specific suggestions for activities and
example projects relevant to individual books as well as to entire
teaching units Supplies bibliographies of hundreds of recently
published children's books recommended for children of different
age levels Cites research findings that underscore the vital
importance of divergent thinking in today's world and its
importance to the business community
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