American Behavioral Scientist articles from September 1993

American Behavioral Scientist archives from September 1993

Toward an integration of creative and critical thinking.
September 1, 1993... Thinking is an art with its own purposes, standards, principles, rules, strategies, and precautions. And it is an art well worth learning, for every important thing we do is affected by our habits of mind. --Vincent Ryan Ruggiero The Art of...

The logic of creative and critical thinking.
September 1, 1993... The momentum and intensity of calls for educational reform are directly related to issues of creatively and critical thinking. The author's works on critical thinking have been written almost exclusively in terms of teaching for the...

Creative and critical thinking through academic controversy.
September 1, 1993... Although creative controvery often occurs naturally within cooperative learning groups, it may be considserably enhanced when teachers structure academic controversies. This involves dividing a cooperative group into two pairs and assigning...

Operant theories of insight, originality, and creativity.
September 1, 1993... There is no doubt that operant theory has contributed to our understanding of behaviors that are indicative of creativity, such as insight, novely, and originlity. The operant research that has been applied to these indicative behaviors is...

Characteristics of the creative person: perceptions of university teachers in relation to the professional literature.
September 1, 1993... Perceptions of University Teachers in Relation to the Professional Literature Faculty members in colleges and universities offer creativity courses in a variety of fields of study with the goal of infusing greater creativity into their...

The problem of creative thought: a psychophysiological technique for higher creativity.
September 1, 1993... Can we explain the relationship between analytical and intuitive thinking in ideal examples of creativity such as physics? Is there a practical means for enhancing creativity? This article presents a psychophysiological theory of creative...

Critical thinking and the construction of knowledge.
September 1, 1993... What characterizes the ideal critical thinker? Within the critical thinking movement, it is sometimes suggested that the ideal critical thinker is a "constructivist knower" who integrates objective and critical ways of knowing with...

How domains constrain creativity: the case of traditional Chinese and Western painting.
September 1, 1993... The Case of Traditional Chinese and Western Painting Creativity has been traditionally studied from the point of view of the individual creator, and it has been assumed that creativity is the same across all knowledge domains. An...

Practical creativity in the corporate world: capturing expert judgement with qualitative models.
September 1, 1993... Capturing Expert Judgment With Qualitative Models Creativity and intuition are recurring themes in the management literature of the 1980s. Agor's (1984) Intuitive Management and Owen's (1987) Spirit Transformation and Development in...

Transformations in management education.
September 1, 1993... In a preexperience management training program at the State University of Groningen (the Netherlands), theoretical knowledge is supplemented by learning from personal experience. Training is conceived as a special form of cooperative human...

The new creative thinking skills needed for total quality management to become fact, not just philosophy.
September 1, 1993... This article models the change-making process for organizations, summarizes research on the model, and shows the fundamental connection change-making skills and the concept called total quality management (TQM). Further, the arcticle modes...

The context for leadership in 21st-century organizations: a role for critical thinking.
September 1, 1993... "Environmental turbulence" and high degrees of interdependence create dilemmas and paradoxes for organizations. Because critical thinking is a primary tool for dealing with dilemmas and paradoxes, the support and encouragement of critical...

The integration of business, science, and human resources: a superparadigm?
September 1, 1993... The role of business asa a forerunner of societal change might be in dispute, but the reality is that the main resource of society is the business enterprise. The observations and reflections presented in this article are especially oriented...