Developing And Enhancing Creativity
Abstract
Many people assumed that creativity is a very important thing in this life. It is ironic, until now there are not some serious efforts and systematically in developing and enhancing creativity especially for children and adolescents. This article aims to discussing about what is creativity and its values in successful and life, creative processes, the creative spirit under C.O.R.E. concept, and the strategies in developing creativity. There are some strategies in enhancing creativity. General strategies include: modeling, create a connstructive environment, play and humor, traveling and reading. Special strategies include: brainstorming, transformative thinking, reverse thinking, forced connection, and practicing self-made tasks and solving the real problems..
Keywords : creativity, CORE spirit, idea generation strategy
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