Understanding and Recognizing Creativity: The Emergence of a Discipline

by Scott G. Isaksen, Mary C. Murdock, Roger L. Firestien

Overview

This volume addresses key issues and assumptions about creativity as a potential discipline, making the progress of creativity studies more explicit and communicable to those within and outside of the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893919825
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Series:	Publications in Creativity Research
Pages:	574
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

aksen /f Scott /i G.

dock /f Mary /i C.

estien /f Roger /i L.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Disciplinary Perspectives
The Emergence of a Discipline: Issues and Approaches to the Study of Creativity
Creatology: A Potential Paradigm for an Emerging Discipline
A Community of Scholars: An Examination of the Antecedents of the1990 International Working Creativity Conference Participants
The Progress and Potential of an Emerging Discipline
The Content and Logical Structure of Creativity Concepts: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Creativity Research
Experiences in Developing Technology for Creative Education
Creativity, Past, Present, and Future: A Philosophical Perspective
Research Perspectives: Organizing Research Frameworks
A Contextual Organizer for Conducting Creativity Research
Using Alternative Perspectives to Build More Robust Theories of Organizational Creativity
Research Perspectives: Examining Research Issues
Toward an Improved Understanding of Creativity within People: The Level-Style Distinction
Cognitive and Psychometric Issues in Creativity Research
Guilford's SOI Model and Behavioral Intelligence with Special Reference to Creative Behavioral Abilities
A Social Psychological Perspective on Creativity: Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity in the Classroom and Workplace
Research Perspectives: Confronting Cultural Challenges
Ethnocentric Confines in Creativity Research
Human Potential: An Exploration of the Role of Creativity from an Arab Perspective
Historical Perspectives
Creativity
Past, Present, and Future: Pioneer's' Perspectives
Moving to a Desired Future State in the Field of Creativity: A Postscript
Author Index
Subject Index