Lisa's Books

I've been checking out a lot of books in connection with this research, so below is a list of the books and maybe one piece of information I've gleaned out of each so far that seems worth following up on.

The Courage to Create by Rollo May
-Love this book, should be required reading for MFA students
-Address the artist's struggle and desire to be immortal.
-Informed by everyone from Einstein to Camus to Picasso. Fun to read.
-Often quotes Carl Jung, especially on artistic breakthrough... a process by which the consciousness gives-way to the unconcious
Teaching for Thoughtfulness: Classroom Strategies to Enhance Intellectual Development by John Barell
-at first I was rejecting any books that dealt with high school classrooms, but then I remembered that our students are not so far removed from high school and reading about what high schools are doing wrong can help us understand how to help these students.
-Barell reminds us that any strategy must lead to a clear goal (the premise of our study!) Thinking + Feeling = Thoughtfulness. This is very Jungian.
Archetypes for Writers by Jennifer Van Bergen
-This is brand new and the author teaches at New School in NYC.
-"In this book you will learn how to find your own character archetypes. Character archetypes contain the action-principles of particular human behavior." She calls this "doing arkhelogy" and her book contains lots of exercises to "develop the skills needed to do arkhelogy work." Hmm.
Evaluating Creativity: Making and learning by young people edited by Julian Sefton-Green and Rebecca Sinker
-Reminds that the word "value" exists in "evaluation," so in order to fairly evaluate any creative product, values must be established.
-"If art is about personal growth and development all that you can evaluate is the student, rather than the work, and is that a proper role for a teacher? However, students do seem to accept and appreciate this role" (Gilbert, 1989).
Teaching for Creative Endeavor by William B. Michael
-Mostly addresses teaching creativity to children, but there are some interesting models in here.
100 Ideas for Teaching Creativity by Stephen Bowkett
-some of these are downright silly, but some could work...