This issue situates creativity at the core of 21st century learning, and examines a wide range of interesting and creative practices in education.

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Table of Contents

• 7 • Statement of Purpose


• 8 • Review Board


• 9 • Editorial
  
  Lynn Butler-Kisber


• 19 • Reflections on Some Dangers to Childhood Creativity
  
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


• 27 • On Children’s Creativity: Defying Expectation
  Jessica Hoffmann Davis


• 35 • A Portrait of the Creative Process in Children’s Learning
  
  Zenia Dusaniwsky


• 45 • Getting at the Heart of the Creative Experience
  Howard Gardner


• 55 • A Week in Creativity
  Jane Piirto


• 63 • Graduate Research Writing: A Pedagogy of Possibility
  
  Cecile Badenhorst, Cecilia Moloney, Janna Rosales, and Jennifer Dyer


• 81 • Uprooting Social Work Education
  Jennifer Clarke, Olivia Aiello, Kelsen Chau, Zakiya Atcha, Mariam Rashidi, and Stephanie Amarel


• 107 • A Day at Filastrocca Preschool, Pistoia, Italy: Meaning Making Through Literacy and Creative Experience
  
  Keely D. Cline, Carolyn Pope Edwards, Lella Gandini, Alga Giacomelli, Donatella Giovannini, and Annalia Galardini


• 129 • The Power of Imagination: Constructing Innovative Classrooms Through a Cultural-Historical Approach to Creative Education
  Cathrene Connery and Vera John-Steiner


• 155 • Nurturing Creativity and Professional Learning for 21st Century Education: “ResponsiveDesign” and the Cultural Landscapes Collaboratory
  Ralph A. Córdova Jr., Kristiina Kumpulainen, and Jeff Hudson


• 179 • Enabling Creativity in Learning Environments: Lessons From the CREANOVA Project
  John M. Davis, Vinnarasan Aruldoss, Lynn McNair, and Nic Bizas


• 201 • Identity and Creativity: Putting Two and Two Together
  Margaret Louise Dobson


• 215 • Narrative Insights: A Creative Space for Learning
  Marcea Ingersoll


• 223 • Portraying Children’s Voices Through Creative Approaches to Enhance Their Transition Experience and Improve the Transition Practice
  Divya Jindal-Snape


• 241 • Creating Mentorship Metaphors: Pacific Island Perspectives
  
  Seu’ula Johansson-Fua, Donasiano Ruru, Kabini Sanga, Keith Walker, and Edwin Ralph


• 261 • Working With a Student Model in a Creative Non-Fiction Workshop: Charging Joint Creativity
  
  Carol Lipszyc


• 273 • Creative Literacies and Learning With Latino Emergent Bilinguals
  Patricia Martínez-Álvarez, María Paula Ghiso, and Isabel Martínez


• 299 • Steppingstones to Appreciating the Importance of Play in the Creative Act
  
  Joe Norris


• 315 • Fostering a Creativity Mindset for Teaching (and Learning)
  Mia O’Brien


• 335 • Debate, Deliberation, Design, and Delivery: Deciding (Whether or) Not to Go by the Book
  Michele Pinard, Gina Marie Bilardi, Donna Cappel, and Kathy Irwin


• 355 • The Creative Research Process: Delights and Difficulties
  Lisa Russell and Nick Owen


• 373 • Sound Stories Cultivate Historic Empathy in Teachers and Students
  Sumer Seiki
• 389 • The Promise of Creativity
  Maxine E. Sprague and Jim Parsons


• 409 • Creativity in the Person: Contemporary Perspectives
  Donald J. Treffinger, Edwin C. Selby, and Patricia F. Schoonover


• 421 • The Journey From Trepidation to Theory: P-12 Teacher Researchers and Creativity
  Jenice L. View, Mary Stone Hanley, Stacia Stribling, and Elizabeth DeMulder


• 443 • Comfortably Uncomfortable: A Study of Undergraduate Students’ Responses to Working in a Creative Learning Environment
  Jan S. Watson


• 463 • Old Pathways, New Directions: Using Lived Experiences to Rethink Classroom Management
  Jamie Zepeda


• 479 • Leading Beautifully: The Creative Economy and Beyond
  Nancy J. Adler

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