Creativity. An Asian-Euro-Afro Perspective
Publisher: Research Publishing Services
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9789810854676
Description: Creativity: An Asian-Euro-Afro Perspective covers topics related to creativity research, development, theories and practices contributed by researchers and graduate students in Asia, Europe, and Africa. It serves as a reading and reference for academics, experts, scientists, and psychologists, and educators to engage in “exploring” their own cultural richness as a means to promote creativity within and across cultures.

Creativity has been seen as a motivating force for personal development, economic growth, and societal advancement. It has become a theme of interest of various nations. Singapore, a young independent country, has engaged in creativity education and creative industries for the past years. Its neighboring country, Indonesia declared the Indonesian Year of Creativity (2009) aims to encourage women and laypersons to engage in creative industries in their ethnic domains. Other Asian countries such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Malaysia have embarked on promoting creativity in schools and creative economy and innovative organizations.

Creativity is a theme of engagement of the United Nations of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It is also an area of advancement of the European Union(EU). The EU declared the European Year of Creativity and Innovation (2009) and has since organized a series of creativity-related activities in various member countries.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; title: Part I An Introduction to Creativity Research; title: Creativity and Talent Development Research: Convergent Knowledge and Challenges; title: Ai-Girl Tan and Excellence Study Group; title: Motivation as a Key to Creativity; title: Detlef Urhahne; title: Part II Creativity Research in Asia: A Perspective; title: A Comparison of Third to Fifth Grade Children’s Creative Thinking between Big City and Small Town; title: Yan Wang, Guofeng Zhang and Jiannong Shi; title: Inventive Creativity among Chinese Children and Adolescents: Gender and Developmental Issues in Inventive Creativity; title: Min Tang, Ai-Girl Tan and Jiannong Shi; title: Employee Creativity: A Study on Individual and Contextual Factors; title: Saifen Huang and Ai-Girl Tan; title: Indonesian Creativity: A Perspective from Employees’ Self-Efficacy; title: Yosephine Satiti, Ai-Girl Tan and Rodulf Tippelt; title: Creativity in the Chinese Communities: Short Papers; title: The Potential Leaders: Creative and Sociable Children (Short Paper I); title: Sing Lau, Toby Tong and Wing-Ling Li; title: Personal Epistemology of Chinese Undergraduate and its Relationship with Creativity (Short Paper II); title: Ji Zhou, Jiliang Shen and Detlef Urhahne; title: Part III Creativity Research in Europe and Africa: A Perspective; title: Creativity in Italy: Two Studies; title: Assessing Creative and Noncreative Artifacts in a Restructuring Act (Study 1); title: Paola Pizzingrilli; title: How Italian Children Conceive Creative Persons and Express Their Creativity (Study II); title: Paola Pizzingrilli and Alessandro Antonietti; title: Teachers’ Judgment of Elementary Students’ Ability, Creativity, and Task Commitment; title: Detlef Urhahne; title: Creative Performance of Students in Kosovo; title: Ai-Girl Tan and Linda Hoxha; title: Creative Performance and Happiness of Turkish Creativity Self-efficacious Students; title: Ai-Girl Tan, Burcu Annakkaya, Suan-Peen Foo and Heinz Neber; title: Emotions and Creative Performance in the Context of Kenyan Students; title: Winnie Kamakil, Ai-Girl Tan and Heinz Neber; title: Moody Art: Emotional Induction and Creative Writing; title: Merry Lipinski, Ai-Girl Tan and Frank Fischer