Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity
Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity

Author: Viktor Dörfler

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1786439654

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This Handbook offers an insightful journey through the landscape of research methods used to study the phenomenon of creativity. Offering a methodological panorama for the global community of creativity researchers, contributors provide markers and waypoints to better orient scholars and encourage reflection on how one might produce exceptional research on the burgeoning field of creativity.

Handbook of Research on Creativity and Innovation
Handbook of Research on Creativity and Innovation

Author: Zhou, Jing

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-10-22

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1788977270

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This cutting-edge Handbook takes stock of a diverse set of theoretical and methodological perspectives that address creativity, innovation, and the ways in which they intersect. Considering the development of the field, the Handbook examines current trends to chart a path forward for promising future research.

Creative Research Methods
Creative Research Methods

Author: Helen Kara

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2020-09-16

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1447356756

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Creative research methods can help to answer complex contemporary questions which are hard to answer using conventional methods alone. Creative methods can also be more ethical, helping researchers to address social injustice. This bestselling book, now in its second edition, is the first to identify and examine the five areas of creative research methods: • arts-based research • embodied research • research using technology • multi-modal research • transformative research frameworks. Written in an accessible, practical and jargon-free style, with reflective questions, boxed text and a companion website to guide student learning, it offers numerous examples of creative methods in practice from around the world. This new edition includes a wealth of new material, with five extra chapters and over 200 new references. Spanning the gulf between academia and practice, this useful book will inform and inspire researchers by showing readers why, when, and how to use creative methods in their research. Creative Research Methods has been cited over 750 times.

Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Author: Kara, Helen

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2015-04-10

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1447316282

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With foreword by Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen. Creative research methods can help to answer complex contemporary questions, which are hard to answer using traditional methods alone. Creative methods can also be more ethical, helping researchers to address social injustice. This accessible book is the first to identify and examine the four areas of creative research methods: arts-based research, research using technology, mixed-method research and transformative research frameworks. Written in a practical and jargon-free style, with over 100 boxed examples, it offers numerous examples of creative methods in practice, from the social sciences, arts, and humanities around the world. Spanning the gulf between academia and practice, this useful book will inform and inspire researchers by showing readers why, when, and how to use creative methods in their research.

Handbook of Research on Leadership and Creativity
Handbook of Research on Leadership and Creativity

Author: Michael D. Mumford

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1784715468

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The rapid pace of technological change and globalization of products, competition and services have conspired to place a new premium on innovation for firms across the world. Although many variables influence creativity and innovation, the effective leadership of creative teams has proved especially important. This timely Handbook presents the state of the art for what leaders must do to lead creative teams and how they should do it.

Creative Research Methods in Education
Creative Research Methods in Education

Author: Kara, Helen

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1447357086

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Co-authored by an international team of experts across disciplines, this important book is one of the first to demonstrate the enormous benefit creative methods offer for education research. You do not have to be an artist to be creative, and the book encourages students, researchers and practitioners to discover and consider new ways to explore the field of education. It illustrates how using creative methods, such as poetic inquiry, comics, theatre and animation, can support learning and illuminate participation and engagement. Bridging academia and practice, the book offers: • practical advice and tips on how to use creative methods in education research; • numerous case studies from around the world providing real-life examples of creative research methods in education practice; • reflective discussion questions to support learning.

Handbook of Research on Creative Problem-Solving Skill Development in Higher Education
Handbook of Research on Creative Problem-Solving Skill Development in Higher Education

Author: Zhou, Chunfang

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2016-09-21

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 1522506446

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Developing students’ creative problem-solving skills is paramount to today’s teachers, due to the exponentially growing demand for cognitive plasticity and critical thinking in the workforce. In today’s knowledge economy, workers must be able to participate in creative dialogue and complex problem-solving. This has prompted institutions of higher education to implement new pedagogical methods such as problem-based and case-based education. The Handbook of Research on Creative Problem-Solving Skill Development in Higher Education is an essential, comprehensive collection of the newest research in higher education, creativity, problem solving, and pedagogical design. It provides the framework for further research opportunities in these dynamic, necessary fields. Featuring work regarding problem-oriented curriculum and its applications and challenges, this book is essential for policy makers, teachers, researchers, administrators, students of education.

Handbook of Creativity
Handbook of Creativity

Author: Robert J. Sternberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780521576048

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The goal of the Handbook of Creativity is to provide the most comprehensive, definitive, and authoritative single-volume review available in the field of creativity. To this end, the book contains 22 chapters covering a wide range of issues and topics in the field of creativity, all written by distinguished leaders in the field. The chapters have been written to be accessible to all educated readers with an interest in creative thinking. Although the authors are leading behavioral scientists, people in all disciplines will find the coverage of creativity divided in the arts and sciences to be of interest. The volume is divided into six parts. Part I, the Introduction, sets out the major themes and reviews the history of thinking about creativity. Subsequent parts deal with methods, origins, self and environment, special topics and conclusions.

Handbook of Arts-Based Research
Handbook of Arts-Based Research

Author: Patricia Leavy

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2019-02-27

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 1462540384

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"The handbook is heavy on methods chapters in different genres. There are chapters on actual methods that include methodological instruction and examples. There is also ample attention given to practical issues including evaluation, writing, ethics and publishing. With respect to writing style, contributors have made their chapters reader-friendly by limiting their use of jargon, providing methodological instruction when appropriate, and offering robust research examples from their own work and/or others."--