Gillian Bramwell

McGill University | McGill · Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology (ECP)

Full text available at http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/974917/ Good teaching is creative teaching, yet there is little research focusing on creative teachers themselves. In this article we report a synthesis of 13 qualitative case studies and 2 quantitative studies of teachers who demonstrated everyday or local creativity in their work. Theme...

Full text available from http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/6933/ Effective teachers are often creative ones, yet an examination of creative teaching is largely invisible in the North American creativity literature. Even within education there is little about teachers’ own creative practice. Nonetheless, there are benefits to studying creative t...

The purposes for this study range from the professional to the personal. We are university instructors who teach undergraduate and graduate courses about classroom processes, group development and facilitation, educational psychology, and change processes to pre-service teachers or individuals who use groups as vehicles for classroom, personal, com...

The following is a qualitative portrait of a creative teacher and her teaching process. Over a period of six months, five interviews were conducted with the teacher before, during, and following a university course in teacher education on instructing diverse learners. Additional interviews were conducted with six students at the beginning and end o...

The purpose of this study was to examine the origins of gender differences in mutual gaze between infants and unfamiliar adults, using a prospective longitudinal design. Infant gaze behavior was measured twice: 13–112-hr and 13–18-weeks postpartum. Gender differences were found at Visit 2 due to an increase in girls' gaze behavior. Girls also made...

This study represents a collaborative school university partnership. Using a mixed-method approach, the authors report on the motivational and psychological consequences of students choosing their groupmates in cooperative learning triads. 139 students in five science classes participated in this study. Classes were randomly assigned to condition:...

This study represents a collaborative school university partnership. Using a mixed-method approach, the authors report on the motivational and psychological consequences of students choosing their groupmates in cooperative learning triads. 139 students in five science classes participated in this study. Classes were randomly assigned to condition:...

This study follows three Grade-six primary school students as they access, interpret and use information found on the Web in order to complete a class assignment. It comments upon information-seeking behaviors, information interpretation skills, and information utilization by the students. Finally, it identifies a series of issues that educators mu...

Multipotentiality is widely cited as a characteristic of the most gifted individuals. It refers to their ability and interest to pursue various activities and goals especially as related to leisure and career choice. Multipotentiality appears beneficial, but can also lead to problems in career decision-making. Evidence for such problems, however, i...

Creativity is an asset to any teacher, but it is crucial for teachers of gifted and talented students. Inventive and productive creativity are necessary to efficiently and effectively develop or modify programs and curricula. Expressive creativity is present in instructional interactions with students, and creative problem solving skills are needed...

This study investigated the self-perceptions of low- and high-ability adolescents in a rural community of Jamaica, West Indies. The participants were 95 low-ability and 100 high-ability students who were rigidly tracked into two separate schools. The survey, How I See Myself and Feel About Myself, was specifically designed for this investigation be...

Block's theory (1984) of gender differences was examined to determine if it could explain inconsistencies in the reports of gender differences and the personality correlates of creativity in children. Additionally, an investigation of 244 gifted children in grades 4 to 8 is described. Two divergent thinking tests, each with a familiar and an unfami...

Reviews the literature relating children's creativity to the degree of autonomy experienced in teacher– and parent–child relationships. Findings indicate that the amount of independence that children experience in their relationships with teachers and parents does influence their creative ability. In general, freedom seems to enhance creativity, bu...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Concordia University, 1988. Includes bibliographical references.

Full text available at http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/6747/ This document contains a table outlining the studies used in the manuscript Creative teachers along with the reference list for these data sources. The original manuscript in Roeper Review is a synthesis of 13 case studies and two quantitative studies of teachers who demonstrated ev...