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Group Creativity: Music, Theater, Collaboration
R. Keith Sawyer
Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003
Group Creativity explores the unique form of creativity that emerges from collaborating groups. Dr. Sawyer draws on his studies of jazz ensembles and improvisational theater groups to develop a model of creative group processes. He applies this model of group creativity to a wide range of collaborating groups, including group learning in classrooms and innovative teams in organizations. In group creativity, a group comes together to ...
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Creativity In Performance (Publications in Creativity Research)
Ablex Publishing, 1998
This analysis of creativity in performance ranges from jazz to dance and from theatre to scientific presentations.
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences 1 review
Cambridge University Press, 2006
Excellent for Education Students
I'm a student at Teachers College Columbia University. I've found this book extremely helpful in understanding the many instructional strategies and learning theories that are possible.
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Creating Conversations: Improvisation in Everyday Discourse (Perspectives on Creativity)
R. Keith Sawyer
Hampton Pr, 2001
Conversation is one of those everyday, commonsense abilities that we can all do without thinking. But paradoxically, understanding how conversation works is one of the most difficult problems for scientists - for example, even after decades of research, computers are still miserable conversationalists. This text explores this paradox: how can conversation be so difficult, and at the same time come to us so naturally.? The answer to the paradox ...
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Pretend Play As Improvisation: Conversation in the Preschool Classroom
R. Keith Sawyer
Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997
Examines preschoolers' pretend play in the context of a theory of improvisational performance genres. The text argues that the social skills gained from improvisation are linked to the child's developing ability to improvise with other creative performers.
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Social Emergence: Societies As Complex Systems4 reviews
R. Keith Sawyer
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Overview of Complex Social Systems
This book is a great overview of the state of understanding and research in and around complex social systems. I found this a good foundation for deeper digging, particularly understanding what happens in some of the social networks on the web as they scale. As it is academic in nature (although rather accessible for non-accademics) it is well footnoted and annotated, making it easy to dig ...
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Creativity and Development (Counterpoints (Oxford University Press).)
R. Keith Sawyer, Vera John-Steiner, ...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2003
What is creativity, and where does it come from? Creativity and Development explores the fascinating connections and tensions between creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields that have largely progressed independently of each other-until now. In this book, scholars influential in both fields explore the emergence of new ideas, and the development of the people and situations that bring them to fruition. The uniquely ...
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The Art and Politics of College Teaching: A Practical Guide for the Beginning Professor (Second Edition) 3 reviews
Peter Lang Publishing, 2001
Well Written for Graduate Level Class
This book contained a collection of writings regarding different perspectives in relation to teaching in higher education institutions. For a graduate student soon to be entering into the field of academia it was an insightful and useful book.
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Handbook of College Teaching: Theory and Applications (The Greenwood Educators' Reference Collection)
Greenwood Press, 1994
Colleges are becoming increasingly concerned with the quality of undergraduate instruction, and faculty are devoting more attention to improving their teaching skills. This volume will help college faculty improve their performance in the classroom. The book contains useful theoretical information on the learning styles of college students, and it presents practical information on how to teach courses in particular disciplines. The chapter ...
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Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation 5 reviews
R. Keith Sawyer
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
Praise for EXPLAINING CREATIVITY
From the back cover of the book:
Dean Keith Simonton, author of ORIGINS OF GENIUS: "Without doubt EXPLAINING CREATIVITY is the most comprehensive single-volume presentation of what we know about the creative process, person, and product. Besides that, the book is extremely well written. It would be my first recommendation for anyone fascinated with creativity in all of its complexities and ...
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Improvised Dialogues: Emergence and Creativity in Conversation
Ablex Publishing, 2002
Improvised Dialogues is the first social-scientific study of Chicago improv theater. It focuses on the collaborative verbal creativity that improvising actors use to generate their unscripted dialogues. The author spent two years as a performer, and videotaped 15 different Chicago theater groups--both live performances and rehearsals--resulting in almost 50 hours of performance data. To analyze these dialogues, the book presents the theory of ...
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The Black student's guide to college success1 review
Greenwood Press, 1993
Good Guide for African-American Students Thinking About Colleges
This book desperately needs to be updated but it is still a good guide for African-American students. It covers college preparation in high school, choosing colleges, applying to colleges and attending college. Important information.
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Explaining Creativity
R. Keith Sawyer
Oxford Univ Pr, 2006
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