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Lessons in Creativity from Musical Theatre Characters marries art
and science with a new and exciting collaboration between one of
the world’s leading creativity scholars and an internationally
renowned musical theatre composer. This book will help readers tap
into their creativity and unleash their own creative potential as
they start their careers. Blending cutting-edge research, juicy
anecdotes, lived experience, hands-on activities, and gentle
advice, authors James C. Kaufman and Dana P. Rowe take readers on a
journey to explore and enhance their own creativity. Each chapter
addresses a key aspect of creativity, from how to overcome blocks
to understanding one’s personal strengths all through the lens of
Musical Theatre characters along with insights from those within
the industry. Kaufman and Rowe shatter creativity myths (such as
the tormented artist or having one big break) that may be harming
the reader’s potential growth. Probing questions, fun quizzes,
and engaging exercises will help the reader reflect on the material
and develop strategies for their next step. All throughout, the
readers can learn from the tales of Sweeney Todd, Maria Von Trapp,
Alexander Hamilton, Christine Daaé, and countless others to
inspire their own creativity. This book is ideal for aspiring
theatre professionals, students of performing arts, and theatre and
creativity scholars.
Lessons in Creativity from Musical Theatre Characters marries art
and science with a new and exciting collaboration between one of
the world’s leading creativity scholars and an internationally
renowned musical theatre composer. This book will help readers tap
into their creativity and unleash their own creative potential as
they start their careers. Blending cutting-edge research, juicy
anecdotes, lived experience, hands-on activities, and gentle
advice, authors James C. Kaufman and Dana P. Rowe take readers on a
journey to explore and enhance their own creativity. Each chapter
addresses a key aspect of creativity, from how to overcome blocks
to understanding one’s personal strengths all through the lens of
Musical Theatre characters along with insights from those within
the industry. Kaufman and Rowe shatter creativity myths (such as
the tormented artist or having one big break) that may be harming
the reader’s potential growth. Probing questions, fun quizzes,
and engaging exercises will help the reader reflect on the material
and develop strategies for their next step. All throughout, the
readers can learn from the tales of Sweeney Todd, Maria Von Trapp,
Alexander Hamilton, Christine Daaé, and countless others to
inspire their own creativity. This book is ideal for aspiring
theatre professionals, students of performing arts, and theatre and
creativity scholars.
How is one to understand the nature of intelligence? One approach
is through psychometric testing, but such an approach often puts
the "cart before the horse"--the test before the theory. Another
approach is to use evolutionary theory. This criterion has been
suggested by a number of individuals in the past, from Charles
Darwin in the more distant past to Howard Gardner, Stephen Gould,
Steven Pinker, Carl Sagan, David Stenhouse, and many others. The
chapters in this book address three major questions: 1. Does
evolutionary theory help us understand the nature of human
intelligence? 2. If so, what does it tell us about the nature of
human intelligence? 3. And if so, how has intelligence evolved? The
goal of this book is to present diverse points of view on the
evolution of intelligence as offered by leading experts in the
field. In particular, it may be possible to better understand the
nature and societal implications of intelligence by understanding
how and why it has evolved as it has. This book is unique in
offering a diversity of points of view on the topic of the
evolution of human intelligence.
How is one to understand the nature of intelligence? One approach
is through psychometric testing, but such an approach often puts
the "cart before the horse"--the test before the theory. Another
approach is to use evolutionary theory. This criterion has been
suggested by a number of individuals in the past, from Charles
Darwin in the more distant past to Howard Gardner, Stephen Gould,
Steven Pinker, Carl Sagan, David Stenhouse, and many others. The
chapters in this book address three major questions:
1. Does evolutionary theory help us understand the nature of human
intelligence?
2. If so, what does it tell us about the nature of human
intelligence?
3. And if so, how has intelligence evolved?
The goal of this book is to present diverse points of view on the
evolution of intelligence as offered by leading experts in the
field. In particular, it may be possible to better understand the
nature and societal implications of intelligence by understanding
how and why it has evolved as it has. This book is unique in
offering a diversity of points of view on the topic of the
evolution of human intelligence.
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions provides a
state-of-the-art review of research on the role of emotions in
creativity. This volume presents the insights and perspectives of
sixty creativity scholars from thirteen countries who span multiple
disciplines, including developmental, social, and personality
psychology; industrial and organizational psychology; neuroscience;
education; art therapy, and sociology. It discusses affective
processes - emotion states, traits, and emotion abilities - in
relation to the creative process, person, and product, as well as
two major contexts for expression of creativity: school, and work.
It is a go-to source for scholars who need to enhance their
understanding of a specific topic relating to creativity and
emotion, and it provides students and researchers with a
comprehensive introduction to creativity and emotion broadly.
This handbook focuses on the development and nurturance of
creativity across the lifespan, from early childhood to
adolescence, adulthood, and later life. It answers the question:
how can we help individuals turn their creative potential into
achievement? Each chapter examines various contexts in which
creativity exists, including school, workplace, community spaces,
and family life. It covers various modalities for fostering
creativity such as play, storytelling, explicit training
procedures, shifting of attitudes about creative capacity, and many
others. The authors review research findings across disciplines,
encompassing the work of psychologists, educators, neuroscientists,
and creators themselves, to describe the best practices for
fostering creativity at each stage of development.
This textbook is a systematic and straightforward introduction to
the interdisciplinary study of creativity. Each chapter is written
by one or more of the world's experts and features the latest
research developments, alongside foundational knowledge. Each
chapter also includes an introduction, key terms, and critical
thought questions to promote active learning. Topics and authors
have been selected to represent a comprehensive and balanced
overview. Any reader will come away with a deeper understanding of
how creativity is studied - and how they can improve their own
creativity.
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions provides a
state-of-the-art review of research on the role of emotions in
creativity. This volume presents the insights and perspectives of
sixty creativity scholars from thirteen countries who span multiple
disciplines, including developmental, social, and personality
psychology; industrial and organizational psychology; neuroscience;
education; art therapy, and sociology. It discusses affective
processes - emotion states, traits, and emotion abilities - in
relation to the creative process, person, and product, as well as
two major contexts for expression of creativity: school, and work.
It is a go-to source for scholars who need to enhance their
understanding of a specific topic relating to creativity and
emotion, and it provides students and researchers with a
comprehensive introduction to creativity and emotion broadly.
The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching
Thinking is a comprehensive guide to research on teaching thinking.
Teaching thinking is key to growing a more successful economy, is
needed for increased democratic engagement and is vital for the
well-being of individuals faced with the complexity of a globalised
world. However, there are questions about what we mean by
'thinking', how best to teach it and how best to assess it, and it
is these questions that this handbook explores and addresses.
Containing surveys and summaries of international, cutting-edge
research on every aspect of teaching thinking in a range of
contexts, the handbook is thorough in its delivery, examining many
different approaches and methods to help readers understand what
teaching thinking is and how we can best take this movement
forward. Key topics include: * Theoretical perspectives on teaching
thinking * Approaches for teaching thinking * Developing creative
thinking * Developing critical thinking and metacognition * The
assessment of thinking * Teaching thinking in the context of STEM *
Collaborative thinking and new technology * Neuro-educational
research on teaching thinking This book is an essential guide for
policy-makers, teachers and researchers who are interested in
teaching thinking
Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the
sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity
has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied
creative thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts,
sciences, and communication/leadership. Each contributor explains
what is known about the cognitive processes, ways of
conceptualizing and solving problems, personality and motivational
attributes, guiding metaphors, and work habits or styles that best
characterize creative people within the domain he or she has
investigated. In addition, this book features: *an examination of
how creativity is similar and different in diverse domains;
*chapters written by an expert on creativity in the domain about
which he or she is writing; *a chapter on creativity in psychology
which examines patterns of performance leading to creative eminence
in different areas of psychology; and *a final chapter proposing a
new theory of creativity--the Amusement Park Theoretical Model.
This book appeals to creativity researchers and students of
creativity; cognitive, education, social, and developmental
psychologists; and educated laypeople interested in exploring their
own creativity.
People tend to think of creativity as a trait, a single attribute
with which we are born that is fixed in quantity. Many people think
of creativity as something that only very gifted people possess.
This book challenges all of these notions.
This handbook focuses on the development and nurturance of
creativity across the lifespan, from early childhood to
adolescence, adulthood, and later life. It answers the question:
how can we help individuals turn their creative potential into
achievement? Each chapter examines various contexts in which
creativity exists, including school, workplace, community spaces,
and family life. It covers various modalities for fostering
creativity such as play, storytelling, explicit training
procedures, shifting of attitudes about creative capacity, and many
others. The authors review research findings across disciplines,
encompassing the work of psychologists, educators, neuroscientists,
and creators themselves, to describe the best practices for
fostering creativity at each stage of development.
"Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse" sorts through the
sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity
has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied
creative thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts,
sciences, and communication/leadership. Each contributor explains
what is known about the cognitive processes, ways of
conceptualizing and solving problems, personality and motivational
attributes, guiding metaphors, and work habits or styles that best
characterize creative people within the domain he or she has
investigated.
In addition, this book features:
*an examination of how creativity is similar and different in
diverse domains;
*chapters written by an expert on creativity in the domain about
which he or she is writing;
*a chapter on creativity in psychology which examines patterns of
performance leading to creative eminence in different areas of
psychology; and
*a final chapter proposing a new theory of creativity--the
Amusement Park Theoretical Model.
This book appeals to creativity researchers and students of
creativity; cognitive, education, social, and developmental
psychologists; and educated laypeople interested in exploring their
own creativity.
People tend to think of creativity as a trait - a single attribute with which we are born that is relatively fixed in quantity. Many people also think of creativity as something that only very gifted people possess. This book challenges all of these notions. The basic idea is that there are multiple kinds of creativity, and that everyone can develop at least some of these kinds of creativity. The book considers the various kinds of creativity as they apply in domains such as science, literature, the arts, government, business, and sports. The most common kind of creativity may be conceptual replication, whereby someone produces a minor variant of work that has been produced before. This kind of creativity represents a "limiting case" of creative thought. Most successful inventions and scientific discoveries represent "forward incrementations," which basically take existing ideas and move them to the next step in the direction the field is already going. Often more radical are redirections, which take a field in a new direction, and reinitiations, which represent essentially a "starting over" of how people think about a given problem. The book discusses eight kinds of creativity, and how they are similar to and different from each other. It is illustrated with many examples, and describes why it is necessary to distinguish among the kinds of creativity. Anyone who reads the book will no longer think of creativity as "a thing". Rather, it manifests itself in eight different ways.
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This book provides an overview of the approaches of leading
scholars to understanding the nature of creativity, its
measurement, its investigation, its development, and its importance
to society. The authors are the twenty-four psychological
scientists who are most frequently cited in the four major
textbooks on creativity, and they can thus be considered among the
most eminent living scholars in the field. Authors discuss how they
define creativity, the kinds of questions they have addressed,
theories they have proposed, and a description of their research
and the most interesting empirical results it has produced. The
chapters represent a wide range of substantive and methodological
emphases, including psychometric, cognitive, expertise-based,
developmental, neuropsychological, cultural, systems, and
group-difference approaches. The Nature of Human Creativity brings
together an incredible diversity of viewpoints, helping students
and researchers to see the points of consensus as well as the
differences in contemporary perspectives.
Creativity is of rising interest to scholars and laypeople alike.
Creativity in the arts, however, is very different from creativity
in science, business, sports, cooking, or teaching. This book
brings together top experts in the field from around the world to
discuss creativity across many different domains. Each chapter
includes clear definitions, intriguing research, potential
measures, and suggestions for development or future directions.
After a broad discussion of creativity across different domains,
subsequent chapters look deeper into those individual domains
(traditional arts, sciences, business, newer domains, and everyday
life) to explore how creativity varies when expressed in different
ways. Ultimately, the book offers a future-looking perspective
integrating the different variations of creativity across domains.
This book explores the development of cognitive skills related to
reasoning and creativity, two strands that can intertwine to work
together at times but may also be at odds. Spontaneity and freedom
from constraint, characteristic of the thinking of young children,
may be essential to creativity, which has prompted many to question
how much we lose as we progress through childhood. Research and
common sense tell us that effort, practice, and study are necessary
for the highest levels of creative accomplishment, yet such
intentional exertions seem antithetical to these hallmarks of
creativity. In this revised and expanded second edition, leading
scholars shed new light on creativity's complex relationship to the
acquisition of domain-based skills and the development of more
general logical reasoning skills. Creativity and Reason in
Cognitive Development will be an essential reference for
researchers, psychologists, and teachers seeking to better
understand the most up-to-date work in the field.
Are creative people more likely to be mentally ill? This basic
question has been debated for thousands of years, with the 'mad
genius' concept advanced by such luminaries as Aristotle. There are
many studies that argue the answer is 'yes', and several prominent
scholars who argue strongly for a connection. There are also those
who argue equally strongly that the core studies and scholarship
underlying the mad genius myth are fundamentally flawed. This book
re-examines the common view that a high level of individual
creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental
illness. It reverses conventional wisdom that links creativity with
mental illness, arguing that the two traits are not associated.
With contributions from some of the most exciting voices in the
fields of psychology, neuroscience, physics, psychiatry, and
management, this is a dynamic and cutting-edge volume that will
inspire new ideas and studies on this fascinating topic.
This handbook lays out the science behind how animals think,
remember, create, calculate, and remember. It provides concise
overviews on major areas of study such as animal communication and
language, memory and recall, social cognition, social learning and
teaching, numerical and quantitative abilities, as well as
innovation and problem solving. The chapters also explore more
nuanced topics in greater detail, showing how the research was
conducted and how it can be used for further study. The authors
range from academics working in renowned university departments to
those from research institutions and practitioners in zoos. The
volume encompasses a wide variety of species, ensuring the breadth
of the field is explored.
With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its
positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This
includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others,
such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but
also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts.
This book brings together essays written by experts from various
fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering,
education, history, and design) and with different interests
(personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law
enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of
negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its
dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect
society from its effects.
With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its
positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This
includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others,
such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but
also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts.
This book brings together essays written by experts from various
fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering,
education, history, and design) and with different interests
(personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law
enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of
negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its
dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect
society from its effects.
This handbook lays out the science behind how animals think,
remember, create, calculate, and remember. It provides concise
overviews on major areas of study such as animal communication and
language, memory and recall, social cognition, social learning and
teaching, numerical and quantitative abilities, as well as
innovation and problem solving. The chapters also explore more
nuanced topics in greater detail, showing how the research was
conducted and how it can be used for further study. The authors
range from academics working in renowned university departments to
those from research institutions and practitioners in zoos. The
volume encompasses a wide variety of species, ensuring the breadth
of the field is explored.
The Psychology of Creative Writing takes a scholarly, psychological
look at multiple aspects of creative writing, including the
creative writer as a person, the text itself, the creative process,
the writer s development, the link between creative writing and
mental illness, the personality traits of comedy and screen
writers, and how to teach creative writing. This book will appeal
to psychologists interested in creativity, writers who want to
understand more about the magic behind their talents, and educated
laypeople who enjoy reading, writing, or both. From scholars to
bloggers to artists, The Psychology of Creative Writing has
something for everyone.
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