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Transformational Creativity

Learning for a Better Future

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Editors:
  1. Robert J. Sternberg

    1. Department of Psychology, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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  2. Sareh Karami

    1. Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA

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  • Features leading scholars and perspectives on creativity in Education
  • Builds on Sternberg's work on transformational creativity and giftedness for positive change
  • Includes practical implications to aid teaching in each chapter

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Why Transformational Creativity?

    • Robert J. Sternberg, Sareh Karami
    Pages 1-13

  3. Varieties of Transformational and Transactional Creativity

    • Robert J. Sternberg
    Pages 15-28

  4. Teaching for Transformational Creativity: Fostering a Principled Approach to Creative Action

    • Ronald A. Beghetto
    Pages 29-42

  5. A Life Story Perspective on the Nexus of Creativity and Wisdom

    • Susan Bluck, Kiana Cogdill-Richardson
    Pages 43-57

  6. Future-Oriented Thinking: The Creativity Connection

    • Samira Bourgeois-Bougrine, Saphia Richou, Marie Chizallet, Todd Lubart
    Pages 59-72

  7. Concerned Creativity to Counteract Concerning Creativity

    • Aakash A. Chowkase, Kshama R. Datar, Abhishek M. Dedhe
    Pages 73-88

  8. Deploying Creativity for Good: How Engineers Solve Worthy Problems

    • David H. Cropley
    Pages 89-102

  9. Nurturing Changemakers: Harnessing the Power of Service-Learning Pedagogy for Transformational Creativity

    • Ophélie A. Desmet
    Pages 103-119

  10. Creatively and Critically Challenging Assumptions

    • Gregory J. Feist
    Pages 121-134

  11. The Transformational Potential of Hidden Creativity

    • Vlad P. Glăveanu, Adam E. Green, James C. Kaufman
    Pages 135-147

  12. Transformational Creativity in Education

    • Zorana Ivcevic, Ross C. Anderson, Jessica D. Hoffmann
    Pages 149-168

  13. Holistic Wisdom Education: Towards Transformational Creativity

    • Eeva K. Kallio, Laura Mononen, Terhi Ek
    Pages 169-182

  14. Transforming Behavioral Science, Creatively

    • Hansika Kapoor, Anirudh Tagat
    Pages 183-196

  15. How to Transform Teaching for Creativity Programs to Teaching for Transformational Creativity

    • Sareh Karami
    Pages 197-210

  16. Social Innovation: Creativity in the Transformation of Day-to-Day Life

    • Michael D. Mumford, Tanner R. Newbold
    Pages 211-230

  17. Implementing Transformational Creativity in Higher Education

    • Jonathan A. Plucker, Rafaela Diegoli
    Pages 231-244

  18. Think Globally, Create Locally

    • Mark A. Runco
    Pages 245-254

  19. Transformational Creative Genius: Four Wise Considerations of Three Definitions

    • Dean Keith Simonton
    Pages 255-266

  20. Reality Capture: Why We Need Transformational Creativity More than Ever Before

    • Robert J. Sternberg
    Pages 267-281
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About this book

This edited volume brings together leading scholars in diverse disciplines to share their best thinking on how creativity can be conceived of, taught for, and deployed to serve rather than undermine humanity. Transformational creativity, as defined in this book, is creativity deployed to make a positive, meaningful, and potentially enduring difference to the world. Transformational creativity is compared to transactional creativity, which is creativity deployed in search of a reward, whether externally or internally generated.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Robert J. Sternberg

  • Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA

    Sareh Karami

About the editors

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University and an Honorary Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University, Germany.  Previously, Sternberg served in academic administration as a university dean, senior vice-president, and president.  Before that, he was IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, Professor of Management at Yale, and Director of the Yale Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise.


 
Sareh Karami is Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Mississippi University, USA. Karami earned her doctorate in Educational Studies from Purdue University. Sareh received her bachelor's and Masters in clinical psychology from the University of Tehran. She earned her second Master's in Education from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She served as the head of the research and extracurricular programs department in an Iranian gifted school for more than ten years. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transformational Creativity

  • Book Subtitle: Learning for a Better Future

  • Editors: Robert J. Sternberg, Sareh Karami

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51590-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51589-7Published: 20 March 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51592-7Due: 20 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51590-3Published: 19 March 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 295

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Critical Thinking, Creative Writing, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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