Growing Up Creative

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In Growing Up Creative, Teresa Amabile answers the creativity questions parents and teachers ask most frequently: What is creativity? How is it different from talent or intelligence? Why is it so important, and what can I do to support it?

Growing Up Creative is filled with research-based answers to these questions and with dozens of concrete hands-on exercises and techniques that can help any parent or teacher keep creativity alive at home and in school.

In this myth-shattering book, you’ll learn:

  • What children’s creativity is and how to recognize it.
  • The basic components of children’s creativity.
  • The importance of motivation in creativity.
  • How home and school environments can destroy children’s creativity.
  • Techniques that parents and teachers can use to keep children’s creativity alive.

Teresa’s research and practical suggestions in Growing Up Creative can be embraced by any adult wanting to help a child be all they can be, happily and creatively.

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“[H]ighly recommend . . . In addition to providing important lessons on how creativity, wonder, and the joy of learning can be instilled in children, it points to important changes in how we ought to think about teaching and learning in schools and at home.”

ALBERT SHANKER, President, American Federation of Teachers

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