ABSTRACT
The educational implications of personal creativity and cultural creativity and the development of gifted children were in fact explored in the classic work by J.C. Gowan, G. D. Demos and E. P. Torrance. Conceptions and models of creativity are attempts to understand and to explain a fascinating part of human behaviour and can only be "best approximations" of reality based upon the available knowledge at any given time. Systems oriented approaches to understanding creativity take into account both cognitive factors and non-cognitive factors such as the various interactions between the individual, the field, and the domain. The Test for Creative Thinking – Drawing Production is a non-verbal test of creativity, designed to be a screening instrument that offers a quick, simple and economic assessment of creative potential, with cultural fairness aimed for through drawing production. Research on creativity that focuses on the "creative behaviour" of "successful" adults is equally limiting.
