Educational researchers' personal explicit theories on creativity and its development: A qualitative study

High Ability Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-231

  Maksić, Slavica ^a   Pavlović, Jelena ^a  

^a Institute for Educational Research   (Serbia)

Author keywords

creativity; educational researchers; implicit theories; qualitative study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858322513     PISSN: 13598139     EISSN: 1469834X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13598139.2011.628850     Document Type: Article

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