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- Begin to think of yourself as a creative person and of creativeness as a set of skills that you can practice and get better at using.- T ...more>>
Despite different names, the cultural, psychological and economic forces that have shaped the last 500 years of human history are closely li ...more>>
Many people believe that wisdom is related to knowledge and life experiences. While this is true, the development of wisdom also depends on ...more>>
The global economy is inundated with experts, ‘dispassionate, objective, rational’ technocrats who claim to be able to solve all our pro ...more>>
I was good at singing when I was in 5th grade. But whenever I sang in front of my class I was always de-motivated by everyone, who said, "Y ...more>>
The Knowledge Economy is considered to be the most evolved phase of the global economy. Its cornerstones are the same as the industrial-t ...more>>
Radical pedagogists, such as Paulo Freire, Neil Postman, bell hooks, and Henry Giroux, challenge the conventional concepts of a classroom te ...more>>
"The recognition that total understanding will always elude us is itself a sign of wisdom."[R. Sternberg]Wisdom has been a much discussed to ...more>>
Today, democracy is equated with the free market, in the sense that so-called democratic societies are those which allow their citizens to p ...more>>
In Handbook of Creativity (Cambridge: University Press.1999), Robert Sternberg discusses several limitations to the way creativity has bee ...more>>
The following is adapted from The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism by Edward S. Herman & Robert W. McChesney, ...more>>
Multiple Intelligences(H. Gardner, The Unschooled Mind, 1991)[Approx.] eight distinct and relatively independent intelligences: Linguist ...more>>
From the Four Directions believes that how we organize our communities and organizations — the values and practices we use — will determ ...more>>
[Adapted from Claire L. Gaudiani, "Wisdom as Capital in Prosperous Communities" in F. Hesselbein, et al., eds., The Community of the Future ...more>>
In The Creative Spirit (New York: Plume, 1992), Daniel Goleman et al., argues that schools, through their particular structures and proced ...more>>
