In Hong Kong, there is a growing awareness in early childhood centres that young children's learning is enhanced where they are encouraged to express and develop their creativity during the learning process. This study was principally concerned with examining (a) how young children expressed their creativity and (b) factors that contributed to their creative products and creative performances in child care centre settings in Hong Kong. This study investigated young children both individually and as a group, and it examined the approaches and teaching strategies that tended to nurture children's creative potential. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2009

In Hong Kong, there is a growing awareness in early childhood centres that young children's learning is enhanced where they are encouraged to express and develop their creativity during the learning process. This study was principally concerned with examining (a) how young children expressed their creativity and (b) factors that contributed to their creative products and creative performances in child care centre settings in Hong Kong. This study investigated young children both individually and as a group, and it examined the approaches and teaching strategies that tended to nurture children's creative potential. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2009

Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2000. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 156 p. : ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-111).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Northwestern University, 1995. / Typescript. Includes abstract. "UMI number: 9614754." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-214).

Thesis (M.A.T.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2008. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Educational Psychology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

This dissertation deals with the understanding of policies and interventions that foster human development, with a focus on children and youth, and to build a link between human development and a learning society by using an interdisciplinary approach. This thesis studies how individuals develop their learning capabilities as well as their creative, entrepreneurial, and socio-emotional skills. The dissertation is structured in three main chapters in addition to this brief introduction. The first chapter, "Affective Neuroscience meets Labor Economics: Assessing Non-Cognitive skills on Late Stage Investment on at-Risk Youth,” studies the role of a program designed to foster entrepreneurial and self-confidence through learning by failure using insights from micro-econometric, behavioral economics and applied neuroscience. The second chapter, "How Much Should We Trust Self-reported Measures of Non-cognitive Skills?,” explores the relation between transient emotional states and self-ratings on self-reported measures of socio-emotional skills using a behavioral and a neuro-physiological experiment. This chapter also works as a “proof of concept” of the methods —e.g. emotion-detection theory and lab-in-the-field experiments implemented on chapter 1. The third chapter, “Can Art-based Programs Nurture Human Capital? Evidence From Public Schools in Chile,” studies the impacts of an art-based program in high school in Chile following a quasi-experimental design using propensity score matching techniques.

Thesis (M.I.T.)--The Evergreen State College, 2007. / Title from title screen viewed (6/23/2008). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-146).

Socioeconomic status (SES) influences many aspects of a person's life, and stereotypes concerning level of SES and the domain of creativity exist. It was hypothesized that children classified as low SES would perform more creatively in the visual arts and language arts domains of creativity than in the mathematic and scientific domains.

The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between the creative thinking ability of one hundred selected Negro fourth grade pupils and their parents' attitudes about rearing children.