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Creativity in Doctoral Research: A Reasonable Expectation?

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Pages 33-43 | Published online: 30 Jan 2008

References

  • It is appropriate to note here that the Council of Graduate School in the United States phrased the central purpose of doctoral programs as “The doctoral program is designed to prepare a student for a lifetime of intellectual inquiry that manifests itself in creative scholarship and research.” (Council of Graduate Schools in the United States, The Doctor of Philosophy Degree: A Policy Statement ( Washington , D.C. : The Council , 1977 , p.1).
  • Rollo May , The Courage to Create , ( New York : Norton , 1975 ).
  • Robert R. Bargar and James K. Duncan , “Cultivating Creative Endeavor in Doctoral Research,” Journal of Higher Education ( January 1982 ): 20 – 23
  • J. Bronowski , The Ascent of Man ( Boston : Little Brown , 1973 ), p. 365 .
  • Jacob W. Getzels and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi , “From Problem Solving to Problem Finding,” in Perspectives in Creativity , eds. Jacob W. Getzels and Irving Taylor ( Chicago : Wadsworth , 1975 ), pp. 90 – 116
  • See, Brewster Ghiselin , The Creative Process. ( Berkeley , Calif. : University of California Press , 1952 ); Stanley Rosner and Lawrence E. Abt, The Creative Experience (New York: Grossman, 1970).
  • Robert R. Bargar , “Cognitive Style and Creativity: An Examination of the Effects of Psychological Type Preferences on Creativity.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April, 1985 ).
  • Getzels and Csikszentmihalyi , “ From Problem Solving to Problem Finding ,” pp. 90 – 95 See, also, Robert W. White, “Motivation Reconsidered: The Concept of Competence,” Psychological Review 66 (September 1959): 297–333.
  • Mark Newton , “Nurturing the Intellectual Growth and Accomplishment of Scholars and Scientists: Advanced Study Centers as Evocative Environments,” Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1979 .
  • Ibid.
  • Some experimental work suggests that fluency, flexibility, and originality in thinking are enhanced through dyadic interaction. See, E. Paul Torrance, “Influence of Dyadic Interaction on Creative Functioning,” Psychological Reports 26 ( April 1970 ): 391 – 394 “Stimulation, Enjoyment and Originality in Dyadic Creativity,” Journal of Educational Psychology 62 (February 1971): 45–48.
  • Bargar and Duncan , “ Cultivating Creative Endeavor ,” pp. 17 – 20
  • David J. Levinson and Charles N. Darrow , The Seasons of a Man's Life ( New York : Knopf , 1978 ), p. 98 .

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