Conflicts between high level academic success and creativity
Journal Title: Educational Psychology - Year 2016, Vol 51, Issue 9
Abstract
Conflicts between the focussed discipline essential for academic excellence and the flexible approach essential for high level creativity are most likely to affect the gifted and talented. Each of those psychological styles is influenced by personality traits such as courage to strike out creatively, while conformity offers a retreat into the comfort of social approval. Freeman’s in-depth 35-year study has shown how extremely successful school achievers can become inhibited in creative thought because of pressure to conform. The dilemma for teachers is how to enable their intellectually gifted pupils to achieve top grades, notably in examinations, while at the same time encouraging them to take an open creative approach to their learning. An environment in which the gifted and talented individual can prosper must be developmentally balanced in both knowledge and emotion to experiment and make mistakes, and leisure time to develop good social relationships and interests outside study areas.
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Joan Freeman
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