Top 5 Kindle Books for Creative Education

Creative education should start in the early classrooms, but it need not stop there. Creative education crosses many boundaries. Sometimes it is narrowed down to the arts, but it actually affects industry, our culture and our economic life also. More research continues about how teachers and trainers can incorporate creativity into all subjects they teach.

Amazon.com has created the Kindle so that reading can be done without accumulating a large library of printed books. That company has also created a list of the “best books on creative thinking”. Amazon compiled these books using the “leading experts on creative thinking in the world” from “timeless classic books in the field” (see reference below). Below are five of these books on Kindle:

1. Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
2. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko
3. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
4. Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas by James L. Adams
5. Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius by Michael Michalko

Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono was a Rhodes Scholar, has a Doctor of Design degree, a Doctor of Law degree and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Trinity in Cambridge. In Six Thinking Hats, the author uses hats to represent the six facets of creative thinking. The color white is used for gathering of facts and figures, other colors are used for emotions, opposing views on the subject, positive aspects of the subject, cultural environment for the subject and organizing all the data gathered from the other hats.

Thinkertoys

Michael Michalko organized think tanks in the military and in industry. His experiences in NATO and the CIA were instrumental in creating solutions to many problems. He is a keynote speaker for many Fortune 500 companies and firms in many countries. Thinkertoys is a book that comes out of the author’s experiences in both government and business. It is written from a practical viewpoint. It explains techniques for generating ideas and supplies tools for creative thinking.

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Betty Edwards has been a teacher of art, drawing, art history and color theory. She holds a Doctorate from UCLA in Art, Education and Psychology. Before retiring, she taught and conducted research at the California State University. She founded the Center for the Educational Applications of Brain Hemisphere Research while at CSU. The book has remained a text that artists, marketers and teachers use worldwide. The book describes the functions of the two sides of the brain. Suppressing the analytical side allows a person to fully utilize the perceptual side in creating any work of art.

Conceptual Blockbusting

James L. Adams received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Before finishing his degree, he worked as a design engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Before retiring, he was professor of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Stanford University. When asked to write a small, readable book in 1974, he wrote this book. Conceptual Blockbusting is about the blocks encounter in solving problems. A few of these blocks are perceptual, emotional, cultural and environmental. The book goes on to describe the blockbusters to overcome these blocks.

Cracking Creativity

Michael Michalko researched the greatest thinkers over centuries to analyze their creative thinking techniques. This book describes how to approach problems in creative ways and gives practical exercises to assist the reader.

  Sally Gregory

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Sally Gregory is a school administrator and guest author at BestEducationDegrees.com, a site with reviews of top-rated online teaching degree programs.