Creativity and its Cultivation

Contents: Preface. 1. Scientific creativity/Henry Eyring. 2. The creativeness of life/Edmund W. Sinnott. 3. An architects views on creativity/Alden B. Dow. 4. The creative attitude/Erich Fromm. 5. The nature of creativity/Rollo May. 6. Toward a theory of creativity/Carl R. Rogers. 7. Creativity in self actualizing people/Abraham H. Maslow. 8. Vicissitudes of creativity/Henry A. Murray. 9. Creativity as personality development/Harold H. Anderson. 10. Traits of creativity/J.P. Guilford. 11. Creativity and problem solving/Ernest R. Hilgard. 12. Creativity in education/George D. Stoddard. 13. The social setting of creativity/Harold D. Lasswell. 14. Creativity in cross cultural perspective/Margaret Mead. 15. Creativity in perspective/Harold H. Anderson. References.

It is rather difficult to plan to develop an individual as a writer artist novelist and a musician or a scientist. It is said that creativity is dependent on heredity and that creative persons are born and not cultivated.

But the fact remains that early identification of talent and to help it grow is in the hands of the educator. It is on these aspects that this book considers in detail. (jacket)