Fostering Creativity: A Diagnostic Approach for Higher Education and Organizations (Perspectives on Creativity Research)

Cropley, A.J.

ISBN 10: 1572738898 / ISBN 13: 9781572738898

Published by Hampton Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fostering Creativity: A Diagnostic Approach for Higher Education and Organizations (Perspectives on Creativity Research)
• Publisher: Hampton Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572738898
• ISBN 13: 9781572738898
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 476.3 grams

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Synopsis

This book draws on complementary views of creativity and innovation-as a business process and as a social-psychological process-to create a more detailed and more highly differentiated model which is capable of serving as a practical foundation for diagnosing, anyalzing, optimizing, and fostering creativity and innovation in a variety of organizational settings. It is built around a large number of case studies and down-to-earth examples, and offers many concrete suggestions for fostering what the authors call "functional" creativity.

About the Author

Professor Arthur Cropley obtained his PhD from the University of Alberta (Canada) in 1965 and taught at the Universities of Regina (Canada) and Hamburg (Germany), with brief stints in Australia. He has also lectured in Belgium, Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Latvia, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the USA. After becoming Professor Emeritus on April 1, 1999, he was Adjunct Professor of Engineering at the University of South Australia for six years and also became visiting professor at the University of Latvia. He was founding editor of High Ability Studies and is on the board of the Creativity Research Journal. He has received awards and fellowships, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Latvia. In 2004, he received the Order of the Three Stars from the President of Latvia. He has published extensively on creativity and is the author of 25 books, with translations into a dozen languages including Hungarian, Latvian, Chinese and Korean. He has become increasingly interested in recent years in using creativity concepts to examine areas not usually associated with creativity (such as engineering) and has looked closely at the dark side of creativity, and particularly crime.

Associate Professor David Cropley is an internationally recognised expert in creativity and innovation. He has published 6 books and many chapters and papers on topics including engineering creativity, creativity and crime, organisational creativity and innovation. David Cropley was a scientific consultant and featured creativity expert in the ABC (Australia) documentaries Redesign My Brain (2013), Life at 9 (2014), and Redesign My Brain, Series 2 (2015). He consults on innovation to companies in Europe and Australia, and is also a regular keynote speaker and creativity facilitator for a wide range of business organisations, government departments and schools.