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Studies of drawings by young art students, nonart students, and children who realized their potential for artistic giftedness in adulthood provide clear evidence regarding the effects of advancing knowledge on the development of artistic talent and creativity in children. Focusing on the nature of this artistic experience and developing expertise, this chapter argues that artistic creativity does emerge from measurable interactions between advancing knowledge and visual information processing. Furthermore, the relationships among advanced knowledge in the visual arts, the processing of visual information (i.e., problem finding and reasoning), and creative productivity depend on the task, the behavior monitored, the phase of developing talent, and the expertise that educational intervention can afford. Embracing Gruber's evolving systems approach, a description emerges of the interplay among the young artist's purposeful work, affect, and knowledge of traditional visual arts conventions. The discussion of the early development of artistic talent and creativity articulates the yields of both quantitative and qualitative studies. Studies of the artistic development of groups of children stand against current theories and practice in art education. Identifiable differences do emerge within the context of case studies showing the early roots of children's artistic talent and creativity. The case study of a young artist named Eric later in this chapter is used to exemplify these points. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Thinking and writing about creativity immediately causes us to reflect upon our own experiences and wonder whether or not we think of ourselves as being creative people. This chapter describes an approach to developing creative activities and creativity in children, particularly, ways of influencing teacher behaviors to identify, promote, and develop creative teaching and the strategies for infusing creativity in educational experiences. The chapter provides a brief description on new directions in creativity program (NDC); the three-ring conception of giftedness; the schoolwide enrichment model; and the challenge of change in the real world of schools. The NDC includes five volumes: Mark A, Mark B, Mark I, Mark 2, and Mark 3. The NDC program is designed to help teachers develop the creative thinking abilities of primary and middle grade youngsters, and the premise of NDC is that almost all children have the potential to think creatively and that creative production can be improved by providing systematic learning experiences that foster the use of imagination. The general purpose of NDC can best be explained by contrasting the creative or divergent production abilities with the convergent production abilities emphasized in most elementary school classrooms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

In fairy tales, many protagonists learn by journeying through the Woods, whereas most children in the modem world learn by going through the school system. In this chapter, we use the fairy tale characters from the musical. Into the Woods, as a metaphor for the development of creatively gifted students in our school system (i.e., the Woods). We first trace key research and beliefs about giftedness and creativity in the West, then contrast this with how these concepts are considered in the East (specifically discussing South Korea). We then review how school systems treat various creatively gifted students and problems that commonly arise. Last, we discuss future directions for how school systems can nurture creativity in all students. Discussed solutions include: the RTI model for gifted programs, teaching creative metacognition, and developing effective and efficient creativity assessments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

A wide variety of phenomena influence manifestations of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom. This interdisciplinary exploration sheds light on some of these phenomena and on how they energize or suppress these important dimensions of human ability. A few examples from the exploration include the need for long-range vision; the usefulness of interdisciplinary exploration as a tool for strengthening the integration of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom; the effects of climate change; the influence of metaphorical world views on our thoughts and actions; and the harm done by corrupt, social media platforms. Various recommendations for strengthening and synthesizing intelligence, creativity, and wisdom also are addressed. These include, injecting greater ethical awareness into the currently corrupt corporate world; taking advantage of the benefits of cognitive diversity; strengthening the influence and networking of transformationally gifted experts in various fields; and making ethical academic publishing more accessible to larger audiences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)

In this chapter, we highlight creativity’s role in giftedness. We first highlight the three Ds present in how creativity can apply to giftedness: its developmental trajectory, issues of domain specificity, and array of diverse perspectives. We highlight some theories of creativity that are particularly relevant for the field of giftedness, and then we discuss some specific concepts that we believe will guide us forward to help creativity play a more important role in giftedness. A core principle is that of creativity for all. This concept includes multiculturalism (considering non-Western perspectives), embracing the contributions of many mini-c creators as opposed to a single great Big-C creator, the potential of new technologies to help identify and promote creativity, and the ways in which creativity can help identify underrepresented gifted children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)

This chapter focuses on the cognitive components of giftedness in mathematics as postulated in Milgram's multidimensional 4x4 model of the structure of giftedness. The challenge was to develop operational definitions of domain-specific creative ability in mathematics, to assess them reliably, and to investigate their relationship to general creative thinking ability. In addition, the authors investigated the interrelationships between general and specific creative ability in mathematics and general and specific academic ability in mathematics. This required the development of two new instruments to assess domain-specific creativity in mathematics: the Multiscale Academic and Creative Abilities in Mathematics and the Tel Aviv Activities and Accomplishments Inventory: Mathematics. The authors developed two mapping sentences to provide an exact and detailed conceptual description of the postulated academic and creative abilities in mathematics at four levels of understanding. They used the two mapping sentences to guide the process of building the items to assess specific academic and specific creative thinking abilities in mathematics, respectively. In addition, a precise scoring guide was developed to operationally define differences in academic and creative abilities in mathematics between and within four ability levels. The between-level measurement refers to four qualitatively distinct levels of cognitive process ordered by level of difficulty based on an ordinal scale. The within-level measurement refers to eight qualitatively distinct levels of cognitive processes, ordered by degree of complexity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Israel is a small country in which the academic and creative abilities of people are considered a major natural resource (Milgram, 2000). The identification and education of gifted and talented children and adolescents have been the focus of considerable interest in Israel for many years. The rationale underlying this interest is that a small country, bereft of natural resources, must place high priority on its human resources, that is, on the abilities and talents of its people. This chapter is divided into four sections. In the first section, we present a summary of research in Israel on topics of creativity. In the second section, we present a theoretical model of the structure of giftedness and creativity (Milgram, 1989, 1991) that has generated the bulk of theory-driven empirical research on creativity in Israel. In the third section we report on international research on learning style and creativity that included Israel, and in the fourth section we discuss new directions in research on creativity in Israel. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

For a topic that can seem amorphous, mystical, or impossible to study, creativity has more than 65 years of active research and a surprisingly high level of agreement on fundamental issues. Unlike many topics, scholars, teachers, and students of creativity can apply their knowledge to their own lives and to enrich the lives of those near them. Creativity has an array of benefits, from personal to professional to global, which are often assumed and not actively studied (Forgeard & Kaufman, 2016). A strong creativity advocate knows the facts about the topic, models creativity in her own life, and defends, enables, and nurtures creativity in the classroom and the world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)