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The Creative Education Foundation (CEF) is a non-profit U.S. membership organization dedicated to creativity and problem solving, founded in Buffalo, New York, in 1954.
The organization was established in 1954 by advertising specialist Alex F. Osborn, [1] the inventor of the concept of brainstorming. In 1955, the organization held the first annual Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI), an international creativity conference, at the University of Buffalo. [2]
For several years, the organization was led by Osborn together with creativity theorist and education researcher Sid Parnes. When Osborn died in 1966, Parnes took over the chair. He established the "Lifetime creative achievement award", granted to individuals who had shown outstanding merit in the field of applied creativity, and also installed a media program of CEF publications.
In 1987, John Meyerhoff took over as CEO, and expanded CEF's educational offer to include business training. Subsequent CEOs added partnership programs and VIP days, and reinstalled CEF consulting and training programs.
Initially, the activities of the foundation focused on organizing the annual conference, developing and applying creativity tools and techniques, conducting research in the field of applied creativity, problem solving and innovation, publishing books and teaching materials, and developing an educational program including creativity for scholars and young people.
In 1967, as part of its research, the organization launched the Journal of Creative Behavior (JCB), a peer-reviewed first research publication devoted to the science of creativity, now published by Wiley-Blackwell. This was followed in 1972 by a monthly newsletter, Creativity in Action.
Since 1979 the CPSI conference has featured four major program streams: "Springboard for novices", "Leadership Development Program", "CPSI YouthWise", [3] and "Extending sessions for exploratory studies".
From 1989 the organization sponsored creativity conferences on other continents to promote creativity and creative education, starting in Australia, and later followed by the South African ACRE conference (from 1994) and the European CREA conference (from 2003). In 2003 the CEF YouthWise program was launched in South Africa, and in 2011 the CPSI program expanded to include the "Creativity in the 21st Century Classroom" course.
CEF publishes a quarterly academic journal on the topic of creative thinking, the Journal of Creative Behavior, edited by Ronald A. Beghetto from the University of Connecticut. The journal deals with methods to foster creative productivity, giftedness, management of creative personnel, testing, creativity in business and industry, development of creative curricula, creativity in the arts and sciences, and reviews of literature on creativity and problem solving. The content also focuses on the creative process. After self-publishing 45 volumes since 1967, the journal moved to Wiley-Blackwell, a commercial publisher of academic journals. [4]
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible or a physical object.
Creative problem-solving (CPS) is the mental process of searching for an original and previously unknown solution to a problem. To qualify, the solution must be novel and reached independently. The creative problem-solving process was originally developed by Alex Osborn and Sid Parnes. Creative problem solving (CPS) is a way of using your creativity to develop new ideas and solutions to problems. The process is based on separating divergent and convergent thinking styles, so that you can focus your mind on creating at the first stage, and then evaluating at the second stage.
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Alex Faickney Osborn was an American advertising executive and the author of the creativity technique named brainstorming.
Sidney J. Parnes was an American academic who was professor at Buffalo State College and the co-founder of the International Center for Studies in Creativity. The center is housed within Buffalo State College, one of the few places in the world that offers a Master's of Science degree in creativity. The department also now offers a distance learning version of the degree to students around the world as well as an undergraduate minor in creative studies.
Design methods are procedures, techniques, aids, or tools for designing. They offer a number of different kinds of activities that a designer might use within an overall design process. Conventional procedures of design, such as drawing, can be regarded as design methods, but since the 1950s new procedures have been developed that are more usually grouped together under the name of "design methods". What design methods have in common is that they "are attempts to make public the hitherto private thinking of designers; to externalise the design process".
Seymour Bernard Sarason was Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught from 1945 to 1989. He is the author of over forty books and over sixty articles, and he is considered to be one of the most significant American researchers in education, educational psychology, and community psychology. One primary focus of his work was on education reform in the United States. In the 1950s he and George Mandler initiated the research on test anxiety. He founded the Yale Psycho-Educational Clinic in 1961 and was one of the principal leaders in the community psychology movement. In 1974, he proposed psychological sense of community, a central concept in community psychology. Since then, sense of community has become a well-known and commonly used term both in academic and non-academic settings.
Tim Hurson is a speaker, writer and creativity theorist living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in New York City, USA. He is now a Canadian citizen. He was educated at The Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, and went to college at Oberlin College in Ohio.
The Strategic Management Society (SMS) is a professional society for the advancement of strategic management. The society consists of nearly 3,000 members representing various backgrounds and perspectives from more than eighty different countries. Membership is composed of academics, business practitioners, and consultants. The society has been credited with being a factor in the development of strategic management as a legitimate field of scholarly endeavor. The SMS publishes the Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and the Global Strategy Journal.
Tudor Rickards is a self published author of non-fiction and fiction, a business academic, and a scientist. He is Professor Emeritus at University of Manchester and formerly Professor of creativity and Organisational change at Alliance Manchester Business School. His fiction works include The Unnamed Threat: A Wendy Lockinge Mystery (2019), Seconds Out (2018) and Chronicles of Leadership (2016). His non-fiction includes Tennis Matters: A Leaders We Deserve Monograph (2015), Tennis Tensions (2015), The Manchester Method (2015) and The Double Houdini (2016).
Creative Pedagogy is the science and art of creative teaching. It is a sub-field of Pedagogy, opposed to Critical pedagogy. "In its essence, creative pedagogy teaches learners how to learn creatively and become creators of themselves and creators of their future."
TESOL Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of TESOL International Association. It covers English language teaching and learning, standard English as a second dialect, including articles on the psychology and sociology of language learning and teaching, professional preparation, curriculum development, and testing and evaluation. The editors-in-chief are Charlene Polio and Peter De Costa, both at Michigan State University. TESOL also publishes TESOL Journal.
The Journal of Creative Behavior is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Creative Education Foundation. The journal was established in 1967. Its current editors are Ronald A. Beghetto and Maciej Karwowski. The journal focuses on creativity and problem solving, including ways to foster creative productivity, creative learning, management of creative personnel, testing, creativity in business and industry, development of creative curricula, and creativity in the arts and the sciences.
Marino (Min) Sidney Basadur is a teacher, consultant and researcher best known for his work in applied creativity and as the developer Simplexity Thinking System for improving workplace innovation & creativity. He is president of Basadur Applied Creativity and professor emeritus of organizational behavior and innovation at McMaster University's Michael G. DeGroote School of Business.
In U.S. education, deeper learning is a set of student educational outcomes including acquisition of robust core academic content, higher-order thinking skills, and learning dispositions. Deeper learning is based on the premise that the nature of work, civic, and everyday life is changing and therefore increasingly requires that formal education provides young people with mastery of skills like analytic reasoning, complex problem solving, and teamwork.
John Edward Arnold was an American professor of mechanical engineering and professor of business administration at Stanford University. He was a pioneer in scientifically defining and advancing inventiveness, based on the psychology of creative thinking and imagination, and an internationally recognized innovator in educational philosophy.
John Baer is a Professor of Educational Psychology at Rider University in New Jersey. He earned his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. in cognitive and developmental psychology from Rutgers University.
Arthur Boice "Andy" VanGundy Jr. was a US communication professor, conference speaker, author and internationally noted expert on idea-generation techniques.
Ruth B. Noller from Sarasota, formerly of Buffalo, is known for her work as a scholar in creative studies. Noller was a Navy veteran of World War II, mathematician, and Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at State University of New York. Her articles and publications include "Mentoring: A Voiced Scarf, Scratching the Surface of Creative Problem Solving" and with Sid Parnes, "The Guide to Creative Action and Creative Action Book."
Creative education is when students are able to use imagination and critical thinking to create new and meaningful forms of ideas where they can take risks, be independent and flexible. Instead of being taught to reiterate what was learned, students learn to develop their ability to find various solutions to a problem. Coming up with various out-of-the box solutions is known as divergent thinking and there is no one way of cultivating this skill - largely due to the newness of the concept and the limited scientific information on creativity.
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