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The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 53.00Learning sciences is an interdisciplinary field that studies teaching and learning. This handbook shows how educators can use the learning sciences to design more effective learning environments - including school classrooms and informal settings such as science centers or after-school clubs, on-line distance learning, and computer-based tutoring software. more...
Group Creativity
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 44.95Group Creativity explores the unique form of creativity that emerges from collaborating groups. Dr. Sawyer draws on his studies of jazz ensembles and improvisational theater groups to develop a model of creative group processes. He applies this model of group creativity to a wide range of collaborating groups, including group learning in classrooms... more...
Improvised Dialogues
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 155.00Improvised Dialogues is the first social-scientific study of Chicago improv theater. It focuses on the collaborative verbal creativity that improvising actors use to generate their unscripted dialogues. The author spent two years as a performer, and videotaped 15 different Chicago theater groupsboth live performances and rehearsalsresulting... more...
Social Emergence
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 38.00Argues that societies are complex dynamical sytems that can be understood through the concept of emergence. more...
Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 27.00Draws on studies of creative, improvised performance to identify practical advice for teachers who wish to become more creative professionals. more...
Explaining Creativity
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 59.99Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. The book summarizes and integrates a broad range of research in psychology and related scientific fields. In the last 40 years, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have devoted increased attention to creativity; we now know more about creativity... more...
Pretend Play As Improvisation
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 69.95Everyday conversations including gossip, boasting, flirting, teasing, and informative discussions are highly creative, improvised interactions. Children's play is also an important, often improvisational activity. One of the most improvisational games among 3- to 5-year-old children is social pretend play --also called fantasy play, sociodramatic... more...
Creativity and Development
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 31.95What is creativity, and where does it come from? Creativity and Development explores the connections and tensions among creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields that, for a long time, have largely progressed independently of each other. more...
Explaining Creativity
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 29.99Includes research by anthropologists on creativity in non-Western cultures, and research by sociologists about the situation, contexts, and networks of creative activity. This book considers not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, and business innovation. more...
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