Creativity, Talent and Excellence (eBook)

Tan, Ai-Girl has been a faculty of the Nanyang Technological University Singapore from 1995. She was a graduate scholar of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (Iwatani Foundation) and Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD). In 2008, she was invited to assume a visiting professor position at the Department of Psychology, LMU sponsored by DAAD. In 2011, she spent one semester as a visiting professor at the Department of Asian Studies, Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan. Between 2006 to present, she delivered invited lectures and keynote addresses on creativity and talent at universities in Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Taiwan) and in Europe (Germany and Italy). She is a life member of the Educational Research Association (Singapore) and Autistic Association (Singapore), a full member of the Japan Creativity Society, American Educational Research Association, Association of Psychological Science, and an advisory panel of the Talent Development and Excellence, a journal of the International Research Association of the Talent Development and Excellence. She organized two creativity conferences in collaboration with a professor at LMU (September, 2008, sponsored by DAAD; June 2010, sponsored by University Funds), and chaired numerous international symposiums on creativity. Her research areas include creativity, multicultural education, well-being, excellence and talent. She has coached more than 30 Master and Ph.D. theses.

ForewordBeth Hennessey ForewordJiannong ShiIntroduction: Reflections on Creativity, Talent, and ExcellenceAi-Girl Tan Part I: Conceptions of Creativity and Cultivating CreativityChapter 1 Learning as a Creative ProcessHeidrun Stoeger Chapter 2 The Three Main Creative Operations: Widening, Connecting, ReversingAlessandro Antonietti and Barbara ColomboChapter 3 Psychology of Cultivating Creativity in Teaching and LearningAi-Girl TanChapter 4 Creativity and Problem-based Learning: A Neglected RelationHeinz Neber and Birgit J. Neuhaus Part II: Studies on Creativity and Cultivating CreativityChapter 5 The What and the How of Creativity: An Exploratory StudyPaola Pizzingrilli and Stefania Molteni Chapter 6 Creativity and Early Talent Development in the Arts in Young and SchoolchildrenAnna N.N. Hui, Mavis W.J. He, and Elaine S.C. Liu-Au Chapter 7 Self-Regulated Learning and Creativity as Related to Age and Gender in the Transition from Elementary to Junior High SchoolMayumi Oie, Yasuhiko Fujie, Yu Okugawa, Shinichiro Kakihana, Shoko Itaka, and Hisashi UebuchiChapter 8 Creativity Self-efficacy and its CorrelatesAi-Girl Tan, Tianchang Li, and Heinz Neber Chapter 9 Personal Epistemology and Its Relationship with CreativityJi Zhou, Jiliang Shen, and Detlef UrhahnePart III Conceptions and Studies on Creativity and Excellence in OrganizationChapter 10 Entrepreneurs’ Creativity and Innovation: A Key to PerformanceDominika Dej, Meir Shemla, and Jürgen Wegge Chapter 11 Creating an Innovative Team: The Promise of Team DiversityMeir Shemla, Dominika Dej, and Jürgen WeggeChapter 12 When Group Goal Setting Fails: The Impact of Task Difficulty and Supervisor FairnessJürgen Wegge and S. Alexander HaslemPart IV: Studies on Educational ExcellenceChapter 13 The Hector-Seminar: A New Enrichment Program for MINT/STEM-talentsKurt A. Heller  Chapter 14 Joint Function of Perceived Classroom Goal Orientations and Personal Achievement Goals on Student School ExcellenceYanhua Zhao and Rudolf TippeltChapter 15 Effects of Video Source Presentation and Cue Retrieval on Analogical Problem SolvingMong Song Goh, Ai-Girl Tan, and William ChoyPart V Challenges AheadChapter 16 Perspectives on Gifted Education in the Third MillenniumKurt A. HellerChapter 17 Transitional Gaps and Resilience in JapanMakio Taira Epilogue: Toward Integrative Understanding of Creativity, Talent, and ExcellenceAi-Girl Tan