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Creativity And Flow Theory: Reflections On The Talent Development Of Women, Margaret Botticchio, Wilhelmina J. Vialle
Creativity And Flow Theory: Reflections On The Talent Development Of Women, Margaret Botticchio, Wilhelmina J. Vialle
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
A number of years ago, Wilma was part of the organising committee when the University of Wollongong in New South Wales hosted the Australian Psychological Society's annual conference. We invited students to submit entries into an art contest that addressed the theme of the conference, ‘Why Psychology?’. We had invited two experts from the City Art Gallery to select the winning entry. In awarding the first prize, one of the judges said that he had selected the artwork after being told that the two melted-plastic masses that were a focal part of the piece had originally been a Ken and …
The Tower Of Creativity, Wilhelmina J. Vialle, Albert Ziegler
The Tower Of Creativity, Wilhelmina J. Vialle, Albert Ziegler
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
In the field of creativity research, two paradigms can be distinguished. Both can be traced back to a seminal publication, the Art of Thought by Graham Wallas and Richard Smith in 1926, and to Joy Paul Guilford’s American Psychologist paper entitled Creativity in 1950. While Wallas and Smith conceptualized creativity as a thinking process, Guilford envisaged creativity as a personal trait. Nevertheless, a common element of both paradigms was that creativity is bound to an individual. Similarly, this is also the prevailing view in giftedness research: Creativity is a characteristic of an outstanding individual who is capable of either seeing …