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Motivation To Creativity: Responsibility Of The Elementary Teacher, Charolette Ann Duckett

Honors Theses

The purpose of this paper shall be to explore the nature and characteristics of creativity and to try to understand what atmosphere and discipline best motivates children to be creative.

Creativity has been termed synonymous with inventiveness, imagination, and originality. In the educational viewpoint, there are other, more complete ways to define this word. Creative teaching once meant correlating art, music, writing or dramatics with other subjects. Now, however, it has been expanded to cover more than in the past. Morse and Wingo discuss creativity as "seeing or expressing new relationships."

An Analytical Survey Of The Elementary Music Program In The Class Aa Schools Of Arkansas, Rosemary Langley

OBU Graduate Theses

Varying methods of instruction in music have been employed in public schools. A regular re-evaluation of what is being done in the public schools is necessary in order that the children of each generation receive the proper training for their musical instruction.

It was the purpose of this study to investigate and evaluate the elementary music programs in the Class AA schools of Arkansas.

A Study Of What Should Characterize The Education Program Of The Mentally Retarded Child, Charolette Ann Duckett

Honors Theses

It is the purpose of this paper to explore the qualities which are necessary to a program of education of the severely mentally handicapped--those who are termed the "educable mentally retarded" and those who are termed the "trainable mentally retarded." I will give a definition of these terms, followed by a short sketch of the history of education for the mentally deficient. I will then try to give some idea of what the goals of special education have become today, and what sort of teacher attitudes, training, and educational principles should be used in relation to teaching these exceptional children.