Using constraints to develop creativity in the classroom

Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 88-112

  Stokes, Patricia D ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511781629.006     Document Type: Chapter

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