At the onset, this book provides explanations/definitions for what it is to be "creative." Research-based viewpoints and personal perspectives on creativity lead to an introduction of an Interactive Methodology (IM) and interactive instructional strategies focused on The Interactive Book Report (IBR). Learning-through-play is emphasized. Special needs students, learning styles, thinking and feeling, a psychologist and scientist's perspectives, effect and affect of the IM and IBR with leadership building are presented. Differentiated instruction activities, mindfulness, neuroplasticity, five case studies involving classroom use of the book's creative cognition operatives are given explicit attention.
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE CHAPTER ONE: Learning, Teaching, Thinking, and Creative Cognition CHAPTER TWO: Linear and Reciprocal Processes of Creativity CHAPTER THREE: Personal Perspectives on Creative Cognition CHAPTER FOUR: An Introduction: Creative Cognition's Interactive Methodology and Book Report CHAPTER FIVE: An Overview: IM and IBR CHAPTER SIX: Advantage Points of the IBR and Its Leadership Building CHAPTER SEVEN: A Guide to Learning and Teaching Creative Cognition CHAPTER EIGHT: Creative Cognition with Special Needs Children: Linking Learning Styles and the IBR CHAPTER NINE: Learning and Teaching Creative Cognition: The IBR'S Cognitive Collective: Thinking and Feeling CHAPTER TEN: Learning and Teaching Creative Cognition: The IBR'S Reciprocal Thinking Phases CHAPTER ELEVEN: Learning and Teaching Creative Cognition: The IBR'S Reciprocal Feeling Phases CHAPTER TWELVE: Using the IM and IBR: A Psychologist's Perspective By: A, Cerruto, Ph.D PART TWO CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Creative Cognition, Neuroplasticity and IBR: A Scientist's Perspective By H. Sasken, M.D. Mindfulness and Creativity By M. Russo, PH.D CHAPTER FOURTEEN: IBR Pages, Activities, and Use as an Assessment Instrument CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Differentiated Instruction and Activities For the IBR Pages CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Differentiated Instruction with More Activities CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Four Topics Including Effects and Affects of IM and IBR PART THREE CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Proof of the Pudding: IM and IBR in Action CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Proof of the Pudding: Continued CHAPTER TWENTY: The Summation: A Research Study Involving the IM and IBR: Ecosystems and Sustainability Afterword Bibliography About the Author
