On the Edge and Keeping on the Edge : The University of Georgia Annual Lectures on Creativity

by Torrance, E. Paul

• ISBN13: 9781567504996
• ISBN10: 156750499X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

On the Edge and Keeping on the Edge contains the first ten lectures in a series sponsored by the University of Georgia's Torrance Center for Creative Studies. Annually, the Lecture Committee tried to identify someone who was on the cutting edge of creativity research. When a decision was made to publish the first ten lectures, the editor asked each lecturer to describe what he/she had done "to keep on the edge." In the first lecture, E. Paul Torrance spoke of his experiances in using his networks to stimulate and keep the creative process flowing. The other areas were creative problem solving (Sidney J. Parnes), the psychology of thinking (Donald J. Treffinger), intergenerational influences (Robert D. Storm), visioning (Joe Khatena), questioning (Garnet Millar), philosophy and ethics (Joseph P. Hester), the Beyonders (Kobus Neethling), and the motivation (Dorothy A. Sisk). Volume II will be entitled Going Beyond the Edge. The first ten lectures were by scholars who had taken us to the edge, and kept us on the edge, but scholars have not been very successful in taking us beyond the edge. It takes people who are free to use their imaginations, like novelists, humorists, actors and actresses, inventors, artists, dancers, and those in other creative areas.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Russel H. Yeany
Preface	ix
E. Paul Torrance
Creative Teaching	1	(14)
E. Paul Torrance
Reflections on a Career in Creative Teaching	2	(10)
Keeping on the Edge	12	(3)
Creative Problem Solving	15	(18)
Sidney J. Parnes
Fifty Years of Creative Problem Solving	16	(13)
Keeping on the Edge	29	(4)
Teaching Thinking	33	(20)
Donald J. Treffinger
On the Edge (and Keeping on the Edge) About Teaching Thinking	34	(19)
Parents and Grandparents as Teachers	53	(24)
Robert D. Strom
Empowerment	77	(10)
Irving S. Sato
Education for Empowerment: Encouraging Innovative Behavior	78	(6)
Keeping on the Edge: An Addendum	84	(3)
Imagery	87	(14)
Joe Khatena
Role of Imagery in Creativity	88	(13)
Questioning	101	(22)
Garnet Millar
The Power of Questioning: An Enabling Strategy to Enhance Learning	102	(16)
Keeping on the Edge: My Plan	118	(5)
Applying Current Research	123	(30)
Joseph P. Hester
``The Search Is Never Over'': Applying Current Research to School Programs and Practices	124	(26)
And Keeping on the Edge	150	(3)
The Beyonders	153	(14)
Kobus Neethling
Paul Torrance: The Ultimate Beyonder	154	(9)
On the Edge: Staying or Moving	163	(4)
Motivation	167	(10)
Dorothy A. Sisk
Making a Difference: One Child at a Time	168	(9)
Name Index	177	(6)
Subject Index	183