Creativity polymathy: What Benjamin Franklin can teach your kindergartener

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 380-387

  Kaufman, James C ^a   Beghetto, Ronald A ^b   Baer, John ^c   Ivcevic, Zorana ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Creativity enhancement; Giftedness; Polymathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954314437     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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