Guiding Creative Talent

by E. Paul Torrance

Overview

Anyone with an interest in the problems of highly creative children will find this volume useful in guiding a wide range of creative talent at all age and educational levels. In preparing this material, I have drawn most heavily upon my own research and that of my colleagues concerning the creative thinking of children, adolescents, and adults. Although my emphasis is upon the problems of highly creative children, I believe you will find these materials useful in guiding a wide range of creative talent at all age and educational levels. I have also attempted to give these research findings and observations meaning from my experience as a teacher, counselor, and principal in a high school and as a college teacher and counselor, roles in which I have met many highly creative individuals. I have also drawn upon my research concerning behavior under emergency and extreme conditions, especially situations involving coercion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789125009
Publisher:	Muriwai Books
Publication date:	12/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Ellis Paul Torrance (1915-2003) was an American psychologist.

Born on October 8, 1915 in Milledgeville, Georgia, he received his undergraduate degree from Mercer University, his Master’s degree from the University of Minnesota, and his doctorate from the University of Michigan. His teaching career spanned from 1957-1984. First, he taught at the University of Minnesota and then later at the University of Georgia, where he became professor of Educational Psychology in 1966.

Torrance was best known for his research in creativity. A prolific writer, he published in excess of 80 books, as well as hundreds of reports, manuals, tests, conference papers, reports and articles, many of which appeared in popular journals or magazines. He was also the creator of the Future Problem Solving Program International, the Incubation Curriculum Model, and the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.

There has been debate in the psychological literature about whether intelligence and creativity are part of the same process (the conjoint hypothesis) or represent distinct mental processes (the disjoint hypothesis). Torrance proposed what was to become a very popular model known as “the threshold hypothesis”, which holds that, in a general sample, there will be a positive correlation between low creativity and intelligence scores, but a correlation will not be found with higher scores.

In 1984, the University of Georgia established the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development. The National Association for Gifted Children has designated a special lecture dedicated to Torrance in one of its focus interest groups.

Torrance passed away on July 12, 2003, aged 87.