Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development

James C. Kaufman is Professor of Educational Psychology at the Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Creativity 101 (2009), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (Cambridge, 2010) and Creativity and Mental Illness (Cambridge, 2014). He is also the founding coeditor of Psychology of Popular Media Culture and past president of the American Psychological Association's Division 10. John Baer is a Professor of Educational Psychology at Rider University. He has written numerous books on creativity, including Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom, Essentials of Creativity Assessment, and Being Creative Inside and Outside the Classroom.

1. Creativity, reason, and cognitive development: ten years later John Baer and James C. Kaufman; Part I. Creativity and Reason in Childhood and the Schools: 2. Creativity in young children's thought Susan A. Gelman and Gail M. Gottfried; 3. Early experiences and creativity: an ecological perspective Cynthia Paris and Diane Crossan Lawler; 4. Imaginative play Sandra W. Russ and Olena Zyga; 5. Revisiting the relationship among schooling, learning, and creativity Ronald A. Beghetto and Jonathan A. Plucker; 6. Higher-level thinking in gifted education Joyce VanTassel-Baska; 7. A young artist's story: advancing knowledge and the development of artistic talent and creativity in children Susan M. Rostan; Part II. Creativity and Reason in Cognition and Neuroscience: 8. The role of domain knowledge in creative problem solving Richard E. Mayer; 9. Processes, strategies, and knowledge in creative thought: multiple interacting systems Michael D. Mumford, Tristan McIntosh, Tyler Mulhearn, Logan Steele and Logan Watts; 10. Dynamic processes within associative memory stores: piecing together the neural basis of creative cognition Adam S. Bristol and Indre V. Viskontas; 11. Creativity and constraint: friends, not foes Catrinel Haught; 12. Creative genius, knowledge, and reason: the lives and works of eminent creators Dean Keith Simonton; 13. Attention, cognitive flexibility, and creativity: insights from the brain Oshin Vartanian; Part III. Creativity and Reason: Interactions and Related Constructs: 14. Opening up creativity: the lenses of axis and focus Mia Keinänen, Kimberly M. Sheridan and Howard Gardner; 15. Creativity and reason: friends or foes? Jacques-Henri Guignard and Todd Lubart; 16. Creative self-beliefs: their nature, development, and correlates Maciej Karwowski and Baptiste Barbot; 17. Individual differences in intelligence, personality, and creativity Adrian Furnham; 18. An update on 'does culture always matter: for creativity, yes, for deductive reasoning, no!' Weihua Niu, Sophia Braha and John X. Zhang.