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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Karwowski, Maciej; Gralewski, Jacek; Lebuda, Izabela; Wisniewska, Ewa – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
The article presents basic information on the strand of psycho-pedagogy of creativity--a unique perspective on creativity teachers' education in Europe and the world. Psycho-pedagogy of creativity is a major in pedagogy studies, run in Poland, at the Warsaw Academy of Special Education. Our aim is to educate specialists who are open, sensitive and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Creative Teaching
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Vass, Eva – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
This paper reports a study on children's classroom-based collaborative creative writing. Based on socio-cultural theory, the central aim of the research was to contribute to current understanding of young children's creativity, and describe ways in which peer collaboration can resource, stimulate and enhance classroom-based creative writing. The…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Creativity, Cooperation, Group Activities
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Topping, K. J.; Trickey, S. – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
To be effective, thinking skills interventions are likely to require specific fine-grain changes in the quantity and quality of teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil dialogue in the classroom, but these are difficult to establish. This study investigated the effects of collaborative philosophical enquiry over time on quantity and quality of interactive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students