Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds

Presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability.

Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds provide a sampling of what the cultivation of curious and creative minds entails. The contributing authors shed light on how curiosity and creativity can be approached in the teaching domain and discuss specific ideas concerning how it plays out in particular situations and contexts.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Division 1: Teacher Education
Chapter 4 Overview and Framework
Chapter 5 1. Some Neglected Components of Teacher Education Programs
Chapter 6 2. Fostering Creativity and Aesthetic Consciousness in Teachers: Theory and Practice
Chapter 7 3. Sunshine and Shadows: Opening Spaces for Creativity, Metaphor, and Paradox in Teaching and Teacher Education
Chapter 8 4. No Less ìRealî in My Mind: Using Fiction as Creative Curriculum in an Undergraduate Teacher Education Course
Chapter 9 5. The Power of Art in Observation
Chapter 10 Summary and Implications
Part 11 Division 2: Students/Programs/Schools
Chapter 12 Overview and Framework
Chapter 13 6. Young Children: Creativity in the Classroom
Chapter 14 7. Arts-Based Education and Creativity
Chapter 15 8. Labyrinths for Creativity and Peace in Schools
Chapter 16 9. A Mind with a View: Education Through the Kaleidoscopic Lenses of the Arts
Chapter 17 10. The First Thunder Clap of Spring: An Invitation Into Aboriginal Ways of Knowing and the Creative Possibilities of Digital Technologies
Chapter 18 11. Fostering Creative Minds through Problem-Solving in a 3-D Visualization Design Research Program
Chapter 19 12. A Report on the Introduction and Resulting Effects of Novel Teaching Strategies in Increasing Creativity and Independent Thought
Chapter 20 13. Poetry from Report Cards: Childrenís Understanding of Themselves in Relationship with Their Teachers
Chapter 21 Summary and Implications
Chapter 22 Afterword