Blog Profile / Imagine That!
| URL : | http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine | |
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| Filed Under: | Lifestyle / Creativity | |
| Posts on Regator: | 34 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.2 | |
| Archived Since: | April 9, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Childhood Collecting: A Neglected Connection between Playing and Learning
You don’t hear much about collecting in school now-a-days. But a century ago psychologists and educators took the collecting habit in children seriously – and pondered how to use it to advantage in the classroom. read more
Gifted and Talented People (and Programs) Need Help!
Many people believe that talent will out, that gifted students are invariably mature, motivated and focused enough to develop on their own. No way! read more
The Empathizing Dilemma, or Confessions of the Eagle-Cam Addict
Like many thousands of people, this spring we found ourselves obsessively watching a pair of eagles raise their young. Responding emotionally to the trials and tribulations of eagle life, we found ourselves smack dab in the middle of the empathizing dilemma.Editorial Controls Editorial Status: No Status read more
The Collection Connection to Creativity
Do you collect anything? Coins? Stamps? Butterflies? Art? Fine wines? Could your hobby potentially make you more creative? read more
Teaching the Creative Process
Creativity is not a “you have it” or “you don’t” kind of thing. It isn’t a personality trait. It’s not a “one size fits all” habit of mind. It’s not, simply, a set of skills to test for or a roster of art classes. So what’s a society to do? Especially one committed to constant innovation? read more
Do Arts Teach Creativity?
Massachusetts and California want to mandate teaching creativity and testing for its outcomes. Maybe your state does, too. In our last post we challenged whether creativity can be taught. In this one, we challenge the measures these states intend to use to test for it. read more
Can Creativity Be Taught?
Many states have begun calling for tests of student creativity. The only reason to test for creativity in schools is to teach it. But can creativity be taught? We don’t think so…. read more
What’s the Pattern?
What do babies, birders and a set of fictional folks faced with a do-or-die puzzle have in common? Once again, we tease out an imaginative thinking tool fundamental to human cognition and creativity. read more
From STEM to STEAM to STREAM: wRiting as an Essential Component of Science Education
Add the imaginative and creative skills acquired in writing to the learning of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and what do you get? Hint, if you need one: the creative capital of society depends on our answers. Really. read more
Intuition and the Logic of Sensual Thinking
Thinking in images and feelings is often dismissed as mere intuition. When a person "just knows" without the language to articulate how or why she knows, there may be difficulties in the boardroom-or the bedroom. But sensual thinking can be surprisingly "logical" as well as heart-felt. read more
Artsmarts: Why Cutting Arts Funding Is Not a Good Idea
Congress is once again making plans to gut the National Endowment for the Arts, so it is time for us to post more data supporting the arts. In previous posts, we've argued that the arts are essential for the development of scientific imagination. Here we argue that the arts stimulate economic development by fostering invention. read more
ARTSMARTS: How the Arts Stimulate Economic Development by Fostering Innovation Or Why Cutting Arts Funding Is Not a Good Idea
Congress is once again making plans to gut the National Endowment for the Arts, so it is time for us to post more data supporting the arts. In previous posts, we've argued that the arts are essential for the development of scientific imagination. Here we argue that the arts stimulate economic development by fostering invention. read more
Fostering Creative Scientists, Technologists, Engineers, and Mathematicians (STEM)
The National Science Board, which governs the National Science Foundation, convened an expert panel on August 25-26, 2009 to discuss ways to foster science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent. Getting ready to participate,...Show More Summary
Writers, the Given Line and Not-Knowing
Many writers find inspiration in what has been called ‘la ligne donnée' or ‘the given line'. A few choice words, sometimes whole stanzas or paragraphs, come into the mind and a poem or a story or a book begins its gestation. British poet A.E. Show More Summary
Before Words: How to Think Like A Poet
Some years ago, in an interview with Bill Moyers, the poet Gary Snyder compared a vital aspect of writing to getting dressed in the morning. You're roaming around in the "landscape of your mind," Snyder said, "looking" and "solving problems" in much the same way you find your socks -- you pull out the drawer and see what's there. Show More Summary
A Step-By-Step Guide To Creative Behavior
How many of us have wished most fervently 'to be more creative'? Unfortunately, there's no instant Rx for creativity - no pills that rev up your artistic instincts, no surgery to enhance your scientific intuition or business acumen. But there is a life style, so to speak, and a handful of healthy strategies for maximizing creative potential. Show More Summary
So You Want to Write a Novel? In Your Dreams!
Who among us has not thought at one time or another that they have a great story to tell? Maybe it's something that happened to us or to someone else in our lives. Maybe it's something we just made up. Whether or not we ever put pen to paper, that story may be no more than the stuff of dreams-literally. Show More Summary
To Dream, Perchance to Create
Ever had an idea that just "popped" into your head? Awoken in the morning with a great idea? It's a very common phenomenon which has prompted many people to ponder where ideas come from. We wish we had the answer! But so far, no one really knows. Show More Summary
Reading for Imaginative Play
All the times you read Goodnight Moon or Where the Wild Things Are, all those hours you and your children spent together with Winnie the Pooh, Charlie and his chocolate factory, and Jim Hawkins in search of Treasure Island--were they worth it? In our last post we argued that children immersed in books from an early age can become good readers. Show More Summary
The Looming Reading Disaster: How Abandoning Children’s Picture Books Will Stifle Creative Imagination
The New York Times (8 Oct 2010) reports that children's book publishers are releasing fewer picture books for young readers because parents are pushing their kids into reading advanced text-only chapter books at ever younger ages. We're appalled. Show More Summary