Organic Creativity in the Classroom: Teaching to Intuition in the Arts and Academics

Organic Creativity in the Classroom demonstrates an approach to teaching creatively-teaching to intuition-that is written by experienced, award-winning classroom teachers. Instead of focusing on divergent production skills such as fluency and flexibility, an outdated approach that dominates the field of creativity studies, this book includes helpful strategies that can be used to encourage students to become more creative within a specific domain. Teachers of writing, mathematics, science, social science, literature, foreign language, theater, songwriting, psychology, comparative religion, and arts education, among other domains, who infuse creativity and intuition into their classrooms share their practical advice using an insightful storytelling approach.

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Organic Creativity in the Classroom: Teaching to Intuition in the Arts and Academics

Organic Creativity in the Classroom demonstrates an approach to teaching creatively-teaching to intuition-that is written by experienced, award-winning classroom teachers. Instead of focusing on divergent production skills such as fluency and flexibility, an outdated approach that dominates the field of creativity studies, this book includes helpful strategies that can be used to encourage students to become more creative within a specific domain. Teachers of writing, mathematics, science, social science, literature, foreign language, theater, songwriting, psychology, comparative religion, and arts education, among other domains, who infuse creativity and intuition into their classrooms share their practical advice using an insightful storytelling approach.

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Organic Creativity in the Classroom: Teaching to Intuition in the Arts and Academics

Organic Creativity in the Classroom: Teaching to Intuition in the Arts and Academics

by Jane Piirto
Organic Creativity in the Classroom: Teaching to Intuition in the Arts and Academics

Organic Creativity in the Classroom: Teaching to Intuition in the Arts and Academics

by Jane Piirto

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Organic Creativity in the Classroom demonstrates an approach to teaching creatively-teaching to intuition-that is written by experienced, award-winning classroom teachers. Instead of focusing on divergent production skills such as fluency and flexibility, an outdated approach that dominates the field of creativity studies, this book includes helpful strategies that can be used to encourage students to become more creative within a specific domain. Teachers of writing, mathematics, science, social science, literature, foreign language, theater, songwriting, psychology, comparative religion, and arts education, among other domains, who infuse creativity and intuition into their classrooms share their practical advice using an insightful storytelling approach.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781618211026
Publisher: Prufrock Press
Publication date: 11/01/2013
Pages: 500
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Preface: What Is Organic Creativity? Jane Piirto xv

Piirto introduces the book and recounts how she tried to reconcile the disconnect between the intuitive artistic process and the prevailing cognitive point of view, which led to the Five Core Attitudes, Seven Fs, and General Practices for Creativity.

Part I Organic Creativity in Academic Domains

Chapter 1 Naïveté, Imagination, and a Glimpse of the Sublime: Organic Creativity in Teaching Literature Todd Kettler Laila Sanguras 3

Chapter 2 The Mess of Mathematics: Organic Creativity in Teaching Advanced Mathematics Erin Daniels 17

Chapter 3 Thinking Outside the Blocks: Organic Creativity in Teaching Social Studies Daniel Peppercorn 31

Chapter 4 Once Upon a Time, There Were No Acids: Teaching Science Intuitively and Learning Science Creatively Keith S. Taber 45

Chapter 5 Beginning With the Totally Unexpected: Organic Creativity in Teaching Physics Kristin MacDowell Rodney Michael 59

Chapter 6 Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do: Organic Creativity in Teaching World Languages F. Christopher Reynolds 75

Part II Organic Creativity in the Arts

Chapter 7 Looking for Artistry Barry Oreck 91

Chapter 8 Learning to Be a Cairn Jessica Nicoll 107

Chapter 9 Embracing Vulnerability: Organic Creativity in Teaching Theatre Jeremy Dubin 121

Chapter 10 Inside the TARDIS, Outside the Box: Organic Creativity in Teaching Theatre and Improvisation Tarik Davis 135

Chapter 11 Tapping Into the Sounds of the Universe: Organic Creativity in Music-Making and Songwriting Sally dhruvá Stephenson 149

Chapter 12 I Channel a Child in Me: Organic Creativity in Teaching Music Branice McKenzie 163

Chapter 13 The Magic of Writing: Organic Creativity in Teaching Fiction Writing Stephanie S. Tolan 177

Chapter 14 Inviting Creative Writing: Organic Creativity in Teaching Poetry Writing Carl Leggo 189

Chapter 15 On Ideas: Organic Creativity in Teaching Visual Arts Charles Caldemeyer 203

Part III Organic Creativity in the Teacher, the Classroom, and the School

Chapter 16 Cars on Blocks and Roadkills: Organic Creativity in Teaching in the G/T Resource Room George W. Johnson 221

Chapter 17 Toward a More Holistic Approach to Teaching: Organic Creativity in Teaching Educational Psychology Diane Montgomery 237

Chapter 18 Visceral Creativity: Organic Creativity in Teaching Arts/Dance Education Celeste Snowber 253

Chapter 19 The Mirror: Creativity as Seeing and Being Seen: Autoethnography of a Teacher Jennifer L. Groman 267

Chapter 20 The Missing Link: Teaching the Creative Problem Solving Process Cyndi Burnett 285

Chapter 21 That "Uh-Oh" Feeling: Organic Creativity in School Counseling Maria Balotta 299

Chapter 22 Imagining School Communities: Organic Creativity in Elementary School Administration Rebecca McElfresh 313

Final Thoughts Jane Piirto 323

Endnotes 325

References 339

About the Editor 349

Index 351

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