Developing Creative Thinking Skills: An Introduction for Learners

ISBN-13: 9781138939554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 138 str.

Brad Hokanson

Opis

Based on over fifteen years of groundbreaking research, Developing Creativity helps learners demonstrably increase their own creative thinking skills. Focusing on divergent thinking, ten inventive chapters build one s capacity to generate a wide range of ideas, both as an individual and as a collaborator. This innovative textbook outlines a semester-long structure for the development of creativity and can easily be utilized as a self-directed format for those learning outside of a classroom. Readers are stimulated to maximize their own creativity through active exercises, challenges to personal limits and assumptions, and ideas that can help create powerful habits of variance."

Spis treści

1. An Introductory Story 2. How Creative Are You? 3. Methods of the Book 4. Understanding Creativity 5. Modes of Thinking 6. Evaluating Creativity 7. The Creative Process 8. Techniques for Idea Generation 9. Expressing Creativity 10. Extending Our Cognitive Resources for Creativity 11. Your Progress 12. Ten Things

O autorze

Brad Hokanson is the Mertie W. Buckman Professor of Design Education at the University of Minnesota, USA. He has received multiple teaching awards and has a diverse academic record, including degrees in Art, Architecture, and Urban Design, and a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology.