How to discourage creative thinking in the classroom

Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-5

  Nickerson, Raymond S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511781629.002     Document Type: Chapter

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