Understanding Creativity

In this highly readable yet comprehensive book, parents and teachers will find many suggestions for enhancing a child’s creativity. Understanding Creativity offers advice on how to plan adventures, value work without “evaluation”, set a creative tone, and incorporate creativity values into one’s own family or classroom culture. Readers will learn how to spot talent through a child’s behaviors and how to encourage practice. Real-life examples of artists, musicians, dancers, entrepreneurs, architects, and authors are included.

About the Author:
Jane Piirto, Ph.D. is Trustee’s Professor of Graduate Education at Ashland University in Ohio. She has written more than one hundred articles, poems, and short stories and has published eight books, including an award-winning novel. Dr. Piirto has been a consultant, speaker, and teacher in Europe, Asia, and South America. She has received two Individual Artist Fellowships and a Fulbright grant.