Creativity: A Handbook for Teachers covers topics related to creativity research, development, theories and practices. It serves as a reference for academics, teacher educators, teachers, and scientists to stimulate further "dialogue" on ways to enhance creativity.

Contents:

• Encouraging Creativity in Education
• Creating a World of Possibilities: Indigenous and Cultural Perspectives
• The Multiple Roles of Educator in Children’s Creativity
• Creativity for Teachers
• Creativity as a Habit
• Creativity and Motivation in the Classroom: A Social Psychological and Multi-Cultural Perspective
• High Ability and Creativity: Conceptual and Developmental Perspectives
• Creativity and Its Cultivation
• The Biological Basis of Creativity
• Creativity Research and the Classroom: From Pitfalls to Potential
• The Two Torrance Creativity Tests: The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (CCTC) and Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement
• Identification of Talents
• Assessing Creativity: A Componential Model
• Education Towards the Future: Asking Questions
• Creativity in Special Education
• Using Assessment to Foster Creativity
• Possibility Thinking in the Early Years and Primary Classroom
• Training Methods of Creative Learning and Practice
• Use of Word Symbol Puzzles to Foster Creativity among Students
• Enhancing Thinking and Leadership Skills Through Creative Problem Solving
• Cultivating Critical and Creative Thinking Skills
• The Japanese Creativity Education and Creativity Techniques: A Perspective from the Enterprise
• Academic and Global Contexts for Creativity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Technology-enhanced Creativity
• Programmer Creativity
• Automated Assessment of Creative Solutions in Mathematics Through Comparative Parsing
• Fostering Creative Behavior: The Role of Self-Regulatory and Self Processes
• Promoting Children’s Strengths: Positive Psychology Goes to School
• Creativity in Rehabilitation Psychology
• Creativity and the Brain
• Culture and Creativity in Organization
• Constructive Creativity in Education

“This book will be useful for educators to provide opportunities for creative self expression, appropriately reward creative behavior, model creative behavior, and avoid overemphasizing blind conformity and the rigid thinking that might preclude creative behavior.”

“I am glad that the editor of the book has initiated and put together this timely, useful and relevant book for teachers who seek to understand the many meanings and aspects of creativity and to nurture creativity in their students.”

“In doing research on creativity, the authors are involved in one way or another in these processes and I think it has made them more creative in her approach towards life. Congratulations on this piece of work.”

“It is so pleasing to be informed that scholars in Asia-Pacific region attempted to edit a book on creativity and strategies for nurturing creativity. It is an ambitious attempt to synthesize existing literature on creativity and its education for students. I trust the book will contribute to the development of the education for nurturing creativity to a great extent.”