ABSTRACT

Creativity and innovation are frequently mentioned as key skills for career and life success in today’s world. This award-winning book brings together some of the world's best thinkers and researchers to offer insights on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

The new edition features fully updated chapters, including expanded coverage of exciting topics such as group creativity, ethics, development, makerspaces, and lessons from other fields. Educational applications are emphasized throughout.

Creativity is often the spice of life, that little extra something that makes the mundane into the interesting, making our routines into fresh new approaches to our daily lives. With this book’s comprehensive and readable approach, you’ll be able to understand what creativity truly is (and isn't), how to foster it, and how it relates to intelligence, leadership, personality, and other concepts.

chapter Chapter 1|17 pages

Defining Creativity

chapter Chapter 2|14 pages

Theories of Creativity

chapter Hot Topic 1|8 pages

Sociocultural Approaches to Creativity

chapter Chapter 3|22 pages

The Creative Personality

Current Understandings and Debates

chapter Chapter 4|16 pages

Why Do We Create?

The Roles of Mindset, Motivation, and Passion

chapter Hot Topic 2|6 pages

Creativity and Mental Illness

So Many Studies, So Many Scattered Conclusions

chapter Hot Topic 3|8 pages

Neuroscience of Creativity

chapter Chapter 5|22 pages

Cognition and Creative Thought

chapter Hot Topic 5|6 pages

Creative Efficiency

More Ideas, Better, Faster!

chapter Hot Topic 6|10 pages

Development of Creativity

Different Phases for Different Ages

chapter Hot Topic 7|10 pages

Pretend Play and Creativity

chapter Chapter 8|20 pages

Investing in Creativity in Students

The Long and Short (Term) of It

chapter Hot Topic 8|8 pages

Creativity in Groups

Catalyst or Complication?

chapter Chapter 9|12 pages

Teachers and Creativity

chapter Hot Topic 9|12 pages

Creativity Assessment

chapter Hot Topic 10|8 pages

Failure and Creativity

chapter Chapter 10|16 pages

Why Are We Creative?

Novel and Effective Products

chapter Hot Topic 11|10 pages

Makerspaces

Supporting Creativity and Innovation by Design

chapter Hot Topic 12|10 pages

Creative Articulation

chapter Chapter 12|22 pages

Leadership and Creativity

What Leaders Can Do to Facilitate Creativity in Organizations

chapter Chapter 13|20 pages

A Sociocultural Perspective on Creativity and Technology

New Synergies for Education