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SUMMARY:How does one teach creativity? - Professor Keith Sawyer\, Washingt
 on University\, in St. Louis\, Missouri\, USA.
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:Summary: Early attempts to teach creativity in earnest began i
 n the 1960s.  In the U.S.\, Paul Torrance developed creativity assessments
  and curricula that continue to be widely used.  However\, these methods r
 emain grounded in the personality psychology of the day.  It is time for a
  new approach to teaching creativity\, one that is grounded in the cogniti
 ve sciences and the learning sciences of recent decades.  In my current re
 search\, I am attempting to bring together the latest learning sciences re
 search with the best contemporary understandings of creative thinking\, to
  work through the implications of how schools could better teach creativit
 y. \n\nBionotes: Dr. Keith Sawyer\, a professor of psychology\, education\
 , and business at Washington University in St. Louis\, is one of the world
 's leading scientific experts on creativity and learning.  His 2007 book G
 ROUP GENIUS (Basic Books)\, written for a broad audience\, draws on his re
 search on jazz and improve theatre to show the reader how to be more creat
 ive in collaborative group settings and how to change organizations for th
 e better.  GROUP GENIUS is his tenth book\; his other books on this topic 
 include EXPLAINING CREATIVITY (Oxford\, 2006)\, an academic overview of cr
 eativity research\, and IMPROVISED DIALOGUES (Greenwood\, 2003)\, which pr
 esents a series of interaction analyses of Chicago improvisational theatre
  performances.  Sawyer is also the editor of THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF THE
  LEARNING SCIENCES (Cambridge\, 2006)\, an influential overview of the fie
 ld of the learning sciences. \n\nRelated publications: \nSawyer\, R. K. (2
 004). Creative teaching: Collaborative discussion as disciplined improvisa
 tion. Educational Researcher\, 33(2)\, 12-20. \nSawyer\, R. K. (2006). Edu
 cating for innovation. The International Journal of Thinking Skills and Cr
 eativity\, 1(1)\, 41-48. \nSawyer\, R. K. (Ed.). (2006). Cambridge handboo
 k of the learning sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press. \nSawyer
 \, R. K. (2007). Group genius: The creative power of collaboration. New Yo
 rk: Basic Books. \n\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, room 1S7
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