Enhancing fluent and flexible thinking through the creative drama process

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-129

  Karakelle, Sema ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Creative drama; Creativity; Divergent thinking; Flexibility; Fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 68449095527     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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