Creativity in Education

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This book provides a wide range of definitions and approaches to creativity and conceptualized by different theorists and relationship between intelligence and creativity. It also covers the identification of creative potential and its measurement by adopting different testing techniques and criteria for establishing creativity in classroom. The arguments that the creative teaching and creative writing and ICT enhance the creative abilities. The authors explained that how school subjects, mathematics and social studies, can also provide ample opportunities for developing creativity and how examination can curb the creative abilities. The book explores creative development in education and the related factors such as environmental and psychological. It is obvious that creativity doesnâ€™t blossom in vacuum. The agencies like school, home and society play a vital role in promoting creativity are offered. The Indian the British teachersâ€™ views on development of creativity can give an insight in two different cultural settings. A collection of different techniques for the development of creativity are presented at the end of this book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mahender Reddy Sarsani

Dr. Mahender Reddy Sarsani obtained M.Sc, degree in Applied Mathematics and M.Ed. from Osmania University, Hyderabad (A.P.). He got his M.Phil. degree from Annamalai University, Tamilnadu and received his Ph.D. from Institute of Education, University of London, UK, under the able guidance of Dr. Elwyn Thomas and Dr. Susan Hailam in the area of Educational psychology. Dr. Reddy is an Associate Professor of Education and presently Principal and Head, Institute of Advance Studies in Education (Dept. of Education), Kakatiya University, Warangal (AP). He was Director, Centre for Adult, Continuing and Extension Activities and Chairperson, Board of Studies in Education in the same University. He was awarded Commonwealth Academic Scholarship by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK, London. Dr. Reddy participated several times in National and International Seminars and Conferences and presented research papers. To his credit, he has conducted two national seminars, two Refresher Courses in Education and one research project, which were sponsored by the UGC, New Delhi.