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March 29, 2017
Introduction to Applied Creative Thinking: Taking Control of Your Future
- Author
- Hal Blythe, Charlie Sweet & Rusty Carpenter
- Publisher
- New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
- ISBN
- 9781581072259
- Table of Contents
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Foreword
Preface: Developing a Creative Thinking Literacy
Acknowledgements
Introduction
ch. 1 What Is Applied Creative Thinking
ch. 2 Rationale: The Critical importance of Applied Creative Thinking
ch. 3 The Great Debate: Can Creative Thinking Be Taught?
ch. 4 Myths of Creative Thinking
ch. 5 Enemies of Creative Thinking
ch. 6 Basic Creative Strategies: Shifting Perception
ch. 7 Basic Creative Strategies: Piggybacking
ch. 8 Basic Creative Strategies: Brainstorming
ch. 9 Basic Creative Strategies: Glimmer-Catching
ch. 10 Basic Creative Strategies: Collaborating
ch. 11 Basic Creative Strategies: Going with the Flow
ch. 12 Basic Creative Strategies: Playing
ch. 13 Basic Creative Strategies: Recognizing Pattern
ch. 14 Basic Creative Strategies: Using Metaphor
ch. 15 The Creative Thinking Environment
ch. 16 Assessing Creativity from Many Angles
ch. 17 Synthesizing: Putting It All Together
ch. 18 Academizing Creative Thinking: The Creative Campus Movement
ch. 19 Domain-Specific Creative Thinking
ch. 20 Creative Thinking and the Digital Media
ch. 21 The Creative Class: Creative Thinking in a Creative Environment
Afterword
Appendixes
Creativity Articles for Further Reading
Definitions of Creativity
Further Exercises
About the Authors
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Abstract: Here is a new text that fulfills an emerging need in both higher and public education and stands to break new ground in addressing critical skills required of graduates.
When working on their last book, It Works for Me, Creatively, the authors realized that the future belongs to the right-brained. While Daniel Pink and other visionaries may have oversimplified a bit, higher education is ripe for the creative campus, while secondary education is desperately seeking a complement to the growing assessment/teach-to-the-test mentality. You don’t have to study the 2010 IBM survey of prominent American CEOs to know that the number one skill business wants is students who can think creatively.
To meet the demand of new courses, programs, and curricula, the authors have developed a 200-page “textbook” suitable for secondary or higher education courses that are jumping on this bandwagon. Introduction to Applied Creative Thinking, as the title suggests, focuses not on just developing the skills necessary for creative thinking, but on having students apply those skills; after all, true creative thinking demands making something that is both novel and useful. Such a book may also be used successfully by professional developers in business and education.
For this book, Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet are joined in authorship by Rusty Carpenter. He not only directs Eastern Kentucky University’s Noel Studio for Academic Creativity but has co-edited a book on that subject, Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships (2011) and the forthcoming Cases on Higher Education Spaces (2012).
Introduction to Applied Creative Thinking is student-friendly. Every chapter is laced with exercises, assignments, summaries, and generative spaces. Order copies now or contact the publisher for further information. (From the Publisher)
Abstract: Here is a new text that fulfills an emerging need in both higher and public education and stands to break new ground in addressing critical skills required of graduates.
When working on their last book, It Works for Me, Creatively, the authors realized that the future belongs to the right-brained. While Daniel Pink and other visionaries may have oversimplified a bit, higher education is ripe for the creative campus, while secondary education is desperately seeking a complement to the growing assessment/teach-to-the-test mentality. You don’t have to study the 2010 IBM survey of prominent American CEOs to know that the number one skill business wants is students who can think creatively.
To meet the demand of new courses, programs, and curricula, the authors have developed a 200-page “textbook” suitable for secondary or higher education courses that are jumping on this bandwagon. Introduction to Applied Creative Thinking, as the title suggests, focuses not on just developing the skills necessary for creative thinking, but on having students apply those skills; after all, true creative thinking demands making something that is both novel and useful. Such a book may also be used successfully by professional developers in business and education.
For this book, Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet are joined in authorship by Rusty Carpenter. He not only directs Eastern Kentucky University’s Noel Studio for Academic Creativity but has co-edited a book on that subject, Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships (2011) and the forthcoming Cases on Higher Education Spaces (2012).
Introduction to Applied Creative Thinking is student-friendly. Every chapter is laced with exercises, assignments, summaries, and generative spaces. Order copies now or contact the publisher for further information. (From the Publisher)