The concept of daydreaming has recently been praised as a necessary tool to access imagination and creative thought. English literature is a subject that requires analytical skills and writing mechanics, but it also necessitates creative thinking to be able to explore, understan…
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Focusing on Mozart’s cadenzas written during his time in Vienna (1781-1791), this paper suggests the beginnings of a pedagogical method for improvising and/or composing cadenzas to Mozart’s piano concertos, enumerating six compositional rules from which a cadenza structure is sh…
The rise of automation technology has caused tremendous social structural changes, and the range of human labor is constantly shrinking. Even, the most traditional unshakable creative fields have gradually been affected. It may predict that automated creative technologies will d…
Innovation has been positively linked to the economic growth of nations, regions, and organizations. Making employee creativity and innovation actionable at the organization level has become a core challenge for leaders. Understanding the influence of culture and leadership prac…
This dissertation examines creativity enhancement in the context of media organizations in Saudi Arabia. In the empirical component of this study, managers and employees in seven Saudi media organizations were surveyed for their perceptions of creative climates in media organiza…
This investigation identified the learning styles and creative performances of Bruneian primary, secondary, performing, non-performing, regular, elite, creative and noncreative students and their teachers' teaching styles. It also compared the significant differences between/amo…
Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study was to explore how leader social power impacts subordinate creativity. Participants in the study were 132 primary and secondary teachers and their respective principals from 18 schools within the Charlotte Mecklenburg School S…
The need for the development of international awareness as part of the undergraduate experience has been recognized for some time. Nevertheless, while the globalization of an economy and international interdependence has grown, effective changes in the undergraduate curriculum h…
This thesis is an attempt to explore the Jordanian community of today with its multi-ethnic fusion and its social practices that often appear rooted in the past. It is an examination of what possible series of symbols could be formed from a collective view of the diverse ethnici…
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the process of creativity in advertising from a practice-based perspective and illustrate the dynamics and relations between practices that can constitute this phenomenon. A nine month long ethnographic study was conducted in the context …
Previous researchers have often speculated about the role of risk taking in creativity, however this association has rarely been systematically investigated. This thesis explores the association between domain specific risk taking and creativity in human participants. It present…
The aim of this study is to investigate English language teachers' understanding of creativity in the context of primary education in Kuwait. The meaning of creativity, and the factors that support or suppress it, are investigated from the point of view of female English languag…
Creativity is very important. It is at the heart of transformative thinking processes, explaining why we have achieved so much as a species. The role of education in developing creativity has been debated for centuries, although this has been complicated by the varying definitio…
The concept of Possibility Thinking (PT) has been investigated both conceptually and empirically for over a decade in early year settings and primary classrooms. The basic aim of this study was to investigate Cypriot primary teachers and how they nurture the PT of 9-10 year-old …
This is a multi-method ethnographic study, grounded in symbolic interactionism and social constructionism, which seeks to explore the social worlds of people with dementia in institutional long-term care. Carried out over six months, it uses non-participant observation, Dementia…
Analysing human creativity has always been a difficult undertaking. The reason for this is the vagueness of the term creativity itself. Philosophers and Researchers have tried to unveil the secrets behind creativity since centuries. Besides some principles e.g. defined by Finke,…
I argue that the resources for political change do not exist as already constituted entities, whether in the form of transcendent values or an already-given consensus. Instead, they must be created; constitutive political action is rooted in creativity, and requires the creation…
This thesis reports a study of the relationship of CAD use in designing and creativity through a Creative Behaviours Framework. This thesis provides a description of the establishment of a framework for gathering empirical evidence to support the analysis of links between CAD an…