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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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Chen, Si; Zhou, Jing – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2010
The ways in which learning graphical representations can encourage the development of creativities in Chinese young children remain to be fully explored. Previous research on children's writing focused on children's symbolization with syllabic languages, providing little information regarding Chinese young children's symbolization and creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Childrens Writing, Writing Strategies
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Hansen, Andreas – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2009
The role of basic conceptual systems (for example, colour, shape, size, position, direction, number, pattern, etc.) as psychological tools for analytic coding, thinking, learning is emphasised, and a proposal for a teaching order of BCSs in kindergarten and primary school is introduced. The first part of this article explains briefly main aspects…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Foreign Countries
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Eason, Roberta; Giannangelo, Duane M.; Franceschini, Louis A., III – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2009
This research study investigated the perspectives of teachers on student creativity. A group of 15 teachers from public schools and 24 teachers from private schools completed an Early Childhood Creativity Rating Scale (ECCRS) on four of their students. A total of 156 students were rated on this ECCRS. The major question asked in this study was:…
Descriptors: Creativity, Public Schools, Private Schools, Preschool Teachers