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Creative Thinking and Teaching for Creativity in Elementary School Science (2010)
Journal Article
Newton, L., & Newton, D. (2010). Creative Thinking and Teaching for Creativity in Elementary School Science. Gifted and Talented International, 25(2), 111-124

While it is important to nurture creativity in young children, it is popularly associated more with the arts than the sciences. This paper reports on a series of studies designed to explore teachers’ conceptions of creative thinking in primary school... Read More about Creative Thinking and Teaching for Creativity in Elementary School Science.

What teachers see as creative incidents in elementary science lessons (2010)
Journal Article
Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2010). What teachers see as creative incidents in elementary science lessons. International Journal of Science Education, 32(15), 1989-2005. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500690903233249

Teachers are often urged to nurture creativity but their conceptions of creativity in specific school subjects may have limitations which weaken their attempts to do so. Primary school teachers in England were asked to rate lesson activities accordin... Read More about What teachers see as creative incidents in elementary science lessons.

Creativity in Science and Science Education: A response to Ghassib (2010)
Journal Article
Newton, L. (2010). Creativity in Science and Science Education: A response to Ghassib. Gifted and Talented International, 25(1), 105-109

Ghassib's (2010) paper is an interesting historical and philosophical discussion on the topic of knowledge production and a productivist industrial model in science. As I see it from the point of view of education, a weakness of the paper relates to... Read More about Creativity in Science and Science Education: A response to Ghassib.