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Higher education may be well-suited for efforts to teach students transformational creativity. This chapter describes two efforts to promote development of positive forms of creativity and innovation and avoid malevolent creativity. The first, developed at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, involves a large-scale reimagining of the undergraduate learning experience. The second, developed on a smaller scale at a number of American universities, focuses on direct instruction in personal creativity. Lessons learned from these interventions about promoting transformational creativity at the university-level are noted.
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Plucker, J.A., Diegoli, R. (2024). Implementing Transformational Creativity in Higher Education. In: Sternberg, R.J., Karami, S. (eds) Transformational Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51590-3_16
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