Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II

by Craig, Cheryl J.; Deretchin, Louise F.; Peace, Terrell M., Ph.D; Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald S.; Chodakowski, Anne; Cote, Julia; Craig, Cheryl J.; Dutcher, Joyce M.; Egan, Kieran; Esch, Ginny; Friesen, Sharon; Gladstone, Brenda; Jardine, David; Jenkins, Kath

• ISBN13: 9781610481144
• ISBN10: 1610481143
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-16
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Cheryl J. Craig is a professor in the College of Education, University of Houston, where she is the coordinator of the teaching and teacher education program area and director of elementary education. Her research, centered on what teachers come to know in context, appears in the field's most esteemed journals and handbooks. Louise F. Deretchin is the former director of higher education for the Houston A+ Challenge and former director of the Medical Informatics Education Center at Baylor College of Medicine. She is a founding member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Houston P-16+ Council and is an education consultant.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Teacher Education
Overview and Framework	p. 3
Some Neglected Components of Teacher Education Programs	p. 5
Fostering Creativity and Aesthetic Consciousness in Teachers: Theory and Practice	p. 22
Sunshine and Shadows: Opening Spaces for Creativity, Metaphor, and Paradox in Teaching and Teacher Education	p. 47
No Less "Real" in My Mind: Using Fiction as Creative Curriculum in an Undergraduate Teacher Education Course	p. 69
The Power of Art in Observation	p. 88
Summary and Implications	p. 103
Students, Programs, and Schools
Overview and Framework	p. 107
Young Children: Creativity in the Classroom	p. 109
Arts-Based Education and Creativity	p. 126
Labyrinths for Creativity and Peace in Schools	p. 144
A Mind with a View: Education through the Kaleidoscopic Lenses of the Arts	p. 160
The First Thunder Clap of Spring: An Invitation into Aboriginal Ways of Knowing and the Creative Possibilities of Digital Technologies	p. 179
Fostering Creative Minds through Problem Solving in a 3-D Visualization Design Research Program	p. 200
A Report on the Introduction and Resulting Effects of Novel Teaching Strategies in Increasing Creativity and Independent Thought	p. 221
Poetry from Report Cards: Children's Understanding of Themselves in Relationship to Their Teachers	p. 245
Summary and Implications	p. 262
Afterword	p. 265
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