{"product_id":"the-creativity-challenge-how-we-can-recapture-american-innovation-paperback","title":"The Creativity Challenge: How We Can Recapture American Innovation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKh Kim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican creativity has steadily declined since 1990. That disturbing trend recently came to light through the work of leading educational psychologist KH Kim, a recognized expert in creativity assessment. In this insightful and inspiring book, Kim discovers the causes of the decrease in creativity and proposes methods of recapturing American creativity in education, in industry, and throughout every sector of society. Through the life stories of innovators, Kim debunks the assumption that creative people must be born with innate talents. She shows how parents, educational methods, and cultures shaped innovators' creative expression. As her research clearly indicates, cultural climates and attitudes (including over-reliance on standardized testing) often work against innovation unless creativity is deliberately grown and developed. Culminating over twenty years of extensive research, Kim has devised original models to identify creativity in people and organizations and help it to blossom. Gardening metaphors illustrate simple but powerful steps to transform creative potential into innovation. She emphasizes practical steps to cultivate creative climates (environment) in schools, in homes, and at work; nurture creative attitudes (personality) toward learning, work, and life; and apply creative thinking skills. Kim's models for creativity are complemented with evidence-based methods to learn and practice creative skills in everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKH Kim\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning professor of educational psychology at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary. Her research study titled \"The Creativity Crisis\" was the subject of a 2010 \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e cover story that caused widespread concern. Numerous news outlets have since sought her expertise, including the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Kim is the co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Creatively Gifted Students Are Not Like Other Gifted Students: Research, Theory, and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eWorld Journal of Behavioral Science\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of numerous articles in professional journals. She serves on the editorial board of the\u003ci\u003e Creativity Research Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and also the\u003ci\u003e Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the Creativity Network Chair of the National Association for Gifted Children and advises the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development. She is the CEO of Nebulys Technologies and the co-inventor of high-tech biomedical systems, currently developing creativity assessment technology (patents-pending).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 351\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765530132768,"sku":"9781633882157","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9dab09fb7102d08be848822aa360976a.webp?v=1780272824","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-creativity-challenge-how-we-can-recapture-american-innovation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}