Integrating Creative Thinking Skills into the Higher Education Classroom

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Author(s): Cyndi Burnett (State University of New York Buffalo State, USA)and Susan Keller-Mathers (State University of New York Buffalo State, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 22
Source title: Handbook of Research on Creative Problem-Solving Skill Development in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Chunfang Zhou (Aalborg University, Denmark)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0643-0.ch013

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference

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The Torrance Incubation Model (TIM) provides a simple and highly effective mechanism for integrating creativity into the teaching of any subject. The model provides guidelines for educators who wish to develop their students' creative skills, but struggle to find the space in the curriculum in which to teach creativity as a subject. The TIM allows creativity to be woven into lesson plans by deliberately incorporating one, or more, of the core creativity skills identified by Torrance. This chapter explains the TIM, and provides examples of how it was used to redesign lessons in a higher education class, in order to teach both the subject, and at the same time develop the students' creative capabilities.

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