Creative Contradictions in Education. Ronald A. Beghetto and Bharath Sriraman.- PART I: UNCOVERING CONCEPTUAL ISSUES & BARRIERS.- Big-C versus little-c Creativity: Definitions, Implications, and Inherent Educational Contradictions. Dean Keith Simonton.- The Nature of Creativity: Mayflies, Octopi, and the Best Bad Idea We Have. Jeffrey K. Smith and Lisa F. Smith.- The difference That Makes a ‘Creative’ Difference in Education. Vlad Petre Glăveanu and Ronald A. Beghetto.- Avoiding Dogmatic Traps in Creativity and Education Through Awareness of Worldviews and Visual-Metaphor. Don Ambrose.- Creative Interpretations of Educational Contradictions. Mark A. Runco.- Subordinated and Rebellious Creativity at School. Maciej Karwowski.- Purposeful Fulfillment of Creative Potential. Pablo P. L. Tinio and Baptiste Barbot.- Content Matters: Why Nurturing Creativity Is So Different in Different Domains. John Baer.- PART II: PRATICAL APPLICATIONS & PROMISING DIRECTIONS.- People, Passions, Problems: The Role of Creative Exemplars in Teaching for Creativity. Robert Root-Bernstein and Michele Root-Bernstein.- Where Learning Meets Creativity: The Promise of Guided Play. Jennifer M. Zosh, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Rebecca Dore.- Contradictory Concepts of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Per Øystein Haavold and Alv Birkeland.- Do We Need a Revolutionary Approach to Bring Creativity into Education? Cynthia A. Burnett and Kathryn P. Haydon.- Promoting Abduction: A Teaching Experiment on Creative Learning Processes in a High School Classroom Context. Lene Tanggaard and Rasmus Hjort.- Creative Imagination in Memorization in Mathematics Learning. Ai-Girl Tan.- The Paradox of Serious Fun. Anthony E. Middlebrooks.- Creativity in Music Education? The Wild Card that Got Stuck in the Deck. Anna Houmann.- Children’s and Teachers’ Conceptions of Creativity: Contradictions and Implications in Classroom Instruction. Eunsook Hong, Rachel Part, and Lonnie Rowel.- On the measurement and mismeasurement of creativity . Todd Lubart and Maud Besançon.- CODA.- Common Themes, Unique Insights, and Future Directions. Ronald A. Beghetto.  

Provides a highly unique and provocative perspective on the topic of creativity and education Brings together leading cross-disciplinary experts to weigh-in on the creative contradictions in education Provides fresh cross-disciplinary insights into how these paradoxes might be resolved or better addressed Introduces new approaches and methodologies for examining long-standing creative contradictions in education

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