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The Creativity Force in Education, Business, and Beyond
Recommended Reading
by Berenice Bleedorn
Lakeville, MN: Golde Press, 1998
ISBN: 1-880090-57-0
Dr. Berenice Bleedorn, founder and former director of the Institute for Creative Studies at the University of St. Thomas and director of the Creative Development Institute in Minneapolis, has written a book relevant to our times and sure to catalyze further interest in the teaching of thinking. She notes that there is growing recognition that in order to assess learning we must not only test for memorization, but for the ability to apply learning and use it to solve problems and think in new ways.
Bleedorn suggests that "new ways of thinking will have to be specifically added to the teaching of content and basic skills if differences between people, religions, cultures, and ideologies are to be resolved in peaceful, productive mutuality at a paradoxical level of thinking. . .Education can help by increasing its attention up, down, and sideways across the full range of individual differences to the recognition and deliberate teaching of high levels of thinking."
She interweaves interesting examples from the lives and work of people in different settings, including internationally. In fact, she suggests that exposure to other cultures is an effective way to stimulate creative thinking, in addition to other critical values. In her conclusion, she stresses that "the need to add the teaching of thinking to other educational reforms is urgent, given the pace and scope of the global transformation in which the human family is engaged."
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