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The Brazilian Way ("jeitinho brasileiro", in Potuguese) is a social strategy that aims to solve problems through negotiations. Despite the importance of developing this skill from childhood, there is a lack of assessment tools for children. The objective of this study is to adapt the Questionnaire on the Brazilian Way - Individual Version for children by presenting evidence of validity and accuracy. Initially, we have worked with a sample of 131 participants. However, in an effort to primarily access children, eight participants were excluded due to being over the age of 13. Thus, the study works with a sample of 123 children, with a majority being girls (61.2%), with a mean age of 10.5 years (SD = 1.78), distributed from 1st to 7th grade of Elementary School, as follows: 7.4% from 1st and 2nd; 39.9% from 3rd and 4th; 37.4% from 5th and 6th; and 15.4% from 7th grade. After conducting exploratory factors analysis, the results indicate a coherent structure composed of two factors, whose content related to understanding the Brazilian Way ("jeitinho") runs through antisocial behaviors (11 items) and creativity (5 items). Together, these factors explain 37.5% of the variance and show satisfactory internal consistency, providing a useful measure for research and assessment of the construct with children samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this contribution, the author presents a refoundation of transcendental phenomenology in terms of “generative phenomenology”. Four perspectives for entering this “generative phenomenology” are outlined – respectively through a consideration of being in phenomenology, creativity, ontogenesis and a reinterpretation of the very concept of the “transcendental” through a descent beneath the phenomenal sphere. This last perspective is developed in more detail and implements a methodological way, a way through the transcendental logic and a way through the structures of transcendentality (which are made explicit in the “generative matrix of the meaningformation” [Sinnbildung]). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creative processes and their relationship with social innovation are the central theme of this study because they are differentiating factors for companies in the face of current social and economic change scenarios. In this context, the question imposed is: how do creative processes relate to social innovation actions in the three large companies surveyed? The objective of this investigation, then, is to analyze the relationships between the creative process and social innovation practices in three organizations, based on 2020 sustainability reports. bibliographical and documental analysis through reports of three large companies, in a qualitative theoretical research. The organizations correspond to three different sectors of the economy that, for the purposes of this study, were named as "Company 1 - Clothing Industry and Trade", "Company 2 - Pulp Industry" and "Company 3 - Financial Institution". they are classified as large companies because they have more than a thousand employees and all have one of their headquarters in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre/RS. Among the results, it was observed that, of the three companies surveyed, the company with the greatest tendency towards social innovation is also the one with the most factors that promote the development of practices to make people more creative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a state-of-the-art study, the article aimed to analyze how the theme "Art and Science in teacher education" has been addressed in important Science Teaching events and journals over the last 20 years (2001-2021) in order to better understand the focus of researches that have been developed and the possibilities related to this theme. We found 77 papers which discussed the Art and Science relationship, most from the last decade, with only 19 focused on teacher education. Although few in number, such studies demonstrate several possibilities to explore based on the interdisciplinarity proposed by them (areas that can be related, target audience, strategies, and types of art), as well as contributions to teacher education, ranging from knowledge improvements to a more critical reflection, a rethinking of the teaching practice, reflections on oneself and one's own body and the development of creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The centrality of the proposal of this article is to discuss to what extent the investigation of the semi-diversity of culture reveals an atmosphere, whose power is capable of fostering creative and innovative explosions to the Creative Industries. In fact, given its configuration and complexity such an atmosphere is established in the extreme creative chaos, which is the basis of any innovative process. Certainly, culture points to a privileged articulation to apprehend the unpredictable mechanisms of creativity, whose character is established in disruptive innovations. It is certainly that such research shows that this path opens up for the engendering of unprecedented formats and products, thus expanding the field of coverage of a Creative and Cultural Economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article highlights part of the research carried out in the professional Master in Education and New Technologies, in a teaching institution and by the research group of a federal public university, which investigate issues related to the design of inclusion and other aspects associated with creative and collective actions for the implementation of interface design projects for applications and podcasts. From a demand to generate new ideas, procedures were applied for this purpose, to supply different educational contexts. The methodology is based on research-application, through which researchers adopt collective practices to develop and apply to more creative design proposals or problem solving (Plomp et al., 2018). After that experience, three procedures or techniques for generating creative ideas and collectively were studied and applied: Brainstorming; Design Thinking and Sprint. In this way, we seek to discuss in this article how procedures to stimulate creativity can serve to engage learners to implement collaborative projects in the classroom or even for different educational needs that seek inter-subjective relationships and interactions. The following authors are highlighted in the theoretical support: Bender (2015); Behrens (2014); Fleith (2001; 2006), Valente and Almeida (2014), Garcia and Czeszak (2019), among others. The results, still preliminary, guide the possibilities of a framework of good practices that align procedures that generate creative ideas, based on the support of active methodologies, for the development of educational projects, as long as the participation of students is considered positive, consistent and engaged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Poet Fernando Pessoa and psychiatrist C. G. Jung developed their works consonant with their biographies. Both described episodes that can be interpreted as mediumistic, seeking to understand them psychologically. In current psychological literature, mediumship is associated to the concept of personality dissociation. In this regard, this article examines the relationship between dissociation and mediumship based on Pessoa's and Jung's biographical episodes, in light of analytical psychology and anomalistic psychology. It is hypothesized that they experienced creative, non-pathological dissociations, although some level of suffering was involved. Pessoa's experiences are related to his hetoronymic production, whereas Jung's are tied with the development of his psychological model, which offers elements for a psychobiographical and artistic study of the poet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In engineering education, creativity is valued for being related to innovation, but there are challenges to be faced in order to encourage it in the undergraduate context. Seeking to offer conditions for the development of creativity in higher education, the literature investigates theexistence of personal and environmental factors that can facilitate or inhibit the creative expression. The objective was to identify predictors of barriers to creativity in engineering students, considering personal and academic variables. Three hundred and seventy-four students participated, responding to the Questionnaire for Sample Characterization and Inventory of Barriers to Personal Creativity. Multiple logistic regression was used for data processing. The response variable (whether or not they agree with factors that reflect barriers to personal creativity) was explained taking into account predictor variables (age, gender, type of course, period of course and job). The main results suggest variables like female gender and first year of the course are predictors for the Inhibition/Shyness barrier; and first and second years of the course are predictors for the Social Repression barrier. These results are important to expand personal resources and strengthen an institutional culture focused on the appreciation and development of creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the early stages of emotional development, the mother can reach such a heightened level of sensitivity that she can adapt to the baby's primary needs. This special maternal state often serves as an inspiration for artistic production when the artist's aesthetic experience is put at the service of his creative power, which is embodied in the creative act. Based on these premises, this study aims to illustrate the singularities of the mother-infant relationship in the beginnings of emotional development through the reading of the work of art through the vertex of Winnicott's psychoanalytic theory, considering the place that art can have in human life. Five sculptures by artist Felícia Leirner compose the corpus of analysis. These works of art metaphorize the development path of the relationship between mother, father, and baby in the wake of the temporal flow that characterizes the first months of development. We also identified in artistic objects the relevance of the environment in the initial stage as a platform for healthy emotional growth throughout life. Instead of using psychoanalytic understanding for the exegesis of artistic work, we propose the inverse movement, in which it is the work that contributes to illuminating psychoanalytic thinking, highlighting nuances that can enrich the understanding of one of the founding themes of Winnicottian theory, child emotional development, suggesting new possibilities of approximation between psychoanalysis and art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the years, information and communication technologies started to be inserted in schools, and with that, gamification emerged as a way to improve the teaching and learning of students, and there are already scientific productions that deal with the application of gamification in education. Therefore, this research aims to present a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications on gamification applied to education. Regarding the methodology, this study is classified as quantitative exploratory. A bibliometric analysis was carried out through a search in the Scopus database, and 210 publications were found between the years 2013 to 2019. The results show that the scientific productions aimed at the application of gamification in education are recent, since data were found from 2013. In addition, it was found that Spain was the country where there is a greater concentration of publications related to the subject under study. The use of the VOSviewer program identified keywords that correspond to the gamification application, showing that its use is necessary to verify if what is being analyzed involves the object of the research study. Thus, it is understood that the publications show that the studies focused on gamification, applied to education, have been growing, however these studies are recent, which shows that there is still much to understand about its application and how this methodology can improve quality teaching and learning of students in schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present moment of humanity has been characterized by countless social, economic and political changes that are reflected in education. As a result of this process, it must be aligned with the new world order without, however, losing sight of the functions; reflective, cooperative, communicative and creative. In this sense, this work has as main objective to discuss the concept of creativity and its relevance in the development of the fundamental skills in the formation of teachers, seeking to transform them into critical subjects capable of quickly solving the problems faced in the current world. This way, the formation of education professionals must develop their creative capacity so that they become active subjects in the process of social transformation. This is a theoretical study that proposes to offer some suggestions for teaching in order to stimulate the creative process, especially at university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creativity is a construct involving cognitive, personality and social aspects. The aim of this study was to construct the Escala de Perfil Criativo (EPC - Creative Profile Scale) and verify its validity. The validity based on its content was analyzed through blind judges, with an agreement rate of 80%, eliminating three items. Evidence of validity for the internal structure of the EPC was investigated through Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), which indicated seven factors. The scale was administered with 442 participants (78.3% females), with ages ranging from 18-75 years (M=38.17; SD=13.31). The reliability through the Cronbach's Alpha produced adequate values for each factor (α=.60 to .75). In conclusion, the validity evidence for the EPC suggests that it can be used to assess creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Guitarist Roland Dyens (1955-2016) has had a distinguished position in the classical guitar world. His performances, compositions and arrangements are recognized and admired all over the world, as well as his pedagogical activity. The same applies to guitarist Sérgio Assad (b.1952). The present paper aims to demonstrate the innovations and the complexities of the solutions present in their arrangements for solo guitar, particularly the work Verano Porteño by Piazzolla, originally composed for the Tango Nuevo quintet of the composer. We compared the arrangements between themselves and also with other arrangements of the same work. We also used interviews that we encountered and others that we conducted with the arrangers. The concepts of complexity of Edgar Morin and creativity of Csikszentmihalyi were used to frame the analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present study was to search for evidence of validity based on external convergent-like variables for a subtest to assess figural creativity, part of a Battery for Assessment of High Abilities/Giftedness (BAAH/S). The sample consisted of 114 students of the 2nd year (n = 15) and 3rd year (n = 99) of high school, aged between 15 and 20 years (M = 17; SD = 0.85), 52 male, coming from a public school. Participants completed the Children's Figural Creativity Test (TCFI) and the Completing Figures Subtest (in validation process). Through the Pearson Correlation, factors that evaluate similar creative aspects showed positive and significant correlations (r = 0.64 between emotional factors; r = 0.60 between cognitive factors; r = 0.56 between enrichment factors ideas), indicating convergence between measures. The correlation between the isolated creative characteristics evaluated in both tests was mostly significant, with values ranging between r = 0.21 and r = 0.61. These results make it possible to confirm positive evidences of validity for the developing subtest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conception of creativity may be influenced by laypeople's opinions and cultural contexts. This study aimed to replicate a study by Bass et al. (2015) with students from the Netherlands about the opinion of facilitating conditions of creativity among lay people, comparing them with Brazilian students. The Brazilian sample consisted of 296 undergraduate students (F = 83%), average age of 24,5 years (SD = 7.73) who did not have any creativity course. The study from the Netherlands consisted of 176 undergraduate students (F = 73.9%) with an average age of 20 years (SD = 5.0). The Brazilian participants answered a questionnaire designed to evaluate the same areas of the Dutch study on situations that favor creativity. The responses compared by t-Student and factor analysis showed differences between countries, with Brazilians giving greater importance to relaxing activities and traveling unlike the Dutch who preferred concentrated activities and being alone. The study concludes that there are cultural influences in the conceptions of creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research objective was to investigate the meanings that 5th grade students from a public school in Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, give to the textual production that enables polysemy, creativity and authorship. Conversation circles were held with the students to know their relationships with written textual production and with the school. Pêcheux's Discourse Analysis guided the data analysis through concepts such as subjectivity, discourse, ideology, discursive memory and authorship. The results point out that the discourses produced by the students about writing often rely on dominant social discourses; when they rely on their own subjectivities, they become closer to polysemy and creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aimed to analyze the relationship between the perceived utility level of budget functions in empowerment and creativity. An exploratory and quantitative research was developed, with primary data from a questionnaire applied to 100 managers in Brazilian organizations of information technology. Data were treated by Structural Equation Modeling. Thus, the perceived utility of budget functions provides employees with the belief that they are free to make choices within a certain defined space limit, which provides the support and autonomy structure necessary for empowerment and, in turn, the creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creative Economy is a recently formed concept that comprises the economic activities of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services formulated through the creativity and intellectual capital. It is greatly valued for its symbolic value and for its capacity to generate employment and income, maintaining an intrinsic bond with culture, society and new technologies. Current paper comprises the creative and market process of products and services formulated by professionals that function within the Creative Economy of the Metropolitan region of the Vale do Paraíba and Northern Littoral Region of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Data were collected by an in-depth interview with a half-structured scheme with open questions applied to a sample of 13 professionals that work in Creative Industry in the areas of consumption, culture, media and technology. Results reveal that creative economy in the Vale do Paraíba and Northern Littoral Region is a relevant activity and makes possible the subsistence of cultural manifestations and financial sustainability of local producers that keep their traditions, customs and values within the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research addresses the concept of creativity from a management perspective and, as such, can be managed and developed by managers in business, new or traditional. Thus, the study aims to understand the management of creativity in the scenario of the managers of a startup graduated in the Armazém da Criatividade in Caruaru- PE. Concomitantly, the creative process is correlated as a precursor of innovation to inspire other managers. For the purposes of method, a qualitative research of explanatory character was carried out, collecting the data through oral history and discussed and analyzed through content analysis. The results found demonstrate the subjectivity of people's relationship with creativity, and the need for managers to reflect on the quality of professionals, the importance of generating knowledge about the market in which they operate and being integrated with business and knowledge networks in innovation environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between thinking and creating styles, well-being, perceived health, and stress in a sample of older adults. The sample was composed of 123 individuals (98 women and 25 men), aged from 60 to 90 years (M = 68.35, SD=7.4), who answered the Thinking and Creating Scales, Positive Mental Health Scale, Perceived Stress Scale and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Spearman's ? analyzes and a network of regularized partial correlations were used to investigate the relationships between the variables. We concluded that the styles that most positively related to the variables of health, well-being and stress are Nonconformist-transforming and Emotional-intuitive styles. The characteristics of such styles can be encouraged to act as positive factors for quality of life at maturity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a discussion on how changes in work processes and in evaluation of results generate changes in the role of creativity, creative professional and advertising agency. The discussion presents as an illustration the symbolic protest of the employees of the Chicago's Leo Burnett agency in which employees covered the name of their founder on the front of the agency building with a sheet of paper that read "Marcel." The protest took place after the ban on the participation of the agency in prizes and festivals of the sector, in favor of the investments destined to the implantation of the platform of artificial intelligence Marcel. The analysis of the Leo Burnett's advertisers attitude and the agency's work philosophy, published in the marketing guide HumanKind (2013), under the historical and critical bias, shows that there are contradictions in their protest, since the agencies already come passing by a process of automation endorsed by the advertisers themselves. This measure only consolidates a scenario that favors a culture of efficiency that, in line with the strategies of the technological capitalism production model, demands new dynamics for creative work, attending to the search for productivity rather than creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of technology has been recommended with an additional feature in the area of psychological assessment. Within this proposal, the Computerized Scale of Creative Characteristics was developed. In order to verify the adequacy of their items, two studies were conducted. In the first one, five graduate students acted as judges, classifying the 64 items of the instrument into eight characteristics (Fluency, Flexibility, Elaboration, Originality, Expression of Emotion, Fantasy, Unusual Perspective, Analogies / Metaphors). The results demonstrated the adequacy of the items, with most of them presenting agreement indexes above 80%. Adequate Kappa values were also found for the judges. In the study 2, 50 students, aged between 18 and 50 years (M=32.7; SD=10.27) participated in a pilot study, helping to reformulate and adapt different aspects of the scale. The results pointed to the adequacy of the scale to the construct and to the population that it intends to evaluate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article analyzes the many different interpretations of the binomial culture-development from the 19th century to the current concepts of multilateral agencies, with the purpose of contributing to the debate over cultural policies and cultural political economy in modern times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Open Innovation is an alternative for organizations that seek differentiation in the market. Through collaboration, it is possible to share ideas and share risks, adding benefits to stakeholders and reducing product development costs. In this discussion, some creativity techniques are presented as facilitators of creative processes in the organizational scope, as well as Design Thinking that is characterized as a new mental model for product development and solutions to complex problems. In this context, the present research aims to evidence theoretical concepts about Design Thinking and some techniques of creativity that can be associated and contribute in the process of Open Innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes to work with the theoretical concept of creativity management by promoting a reflection defined by encouraging work relationships that involve creative individuals and creative leadership in attitudes that foster a creative culture. This analysis considers creativity as a precursor of innovation and evaluates it as a universe capable of improving organizational competitiveness, since, creativity is understood as a social phenomenon. The discussion in this article addresses conditions and characteristics related to the individual, to leadership and culture. Creativity management is a component of a managerial grid focused on interfering in the internal and external contexts of an organization by reviewing deviant and divergent practices regarding the stimulation of creative processes. The development of creativity over time is illustrated by a concept called the spiral of creativity. In conclusion, analyzing creativity as something that is collectively produced and has manageable elements increases the ability to make decisions that foster creativity and allow it to be managed collectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a current need for psychological tests that can assess cognitive functioning through an integrative perspective. The purpose of this study was to collect validity evidence of the adult version of the Battery of Intelligence and Creativity. The sample was composed of 99 students (51 female), with ages ranging between 15 and 17. The battery is composed of five cognitive tests and one creative test. The following tests were used as external criteria: The Reasoning Tests Battery 5; Divided and Alternating Attention Tests and Torrance Tests. The results indicated significant correlations (p..05) between the battery subtests with the intelligence criteria tests (.28 to .52) as well as creativity tests (.26 to .54). This battery was found to be a valid measure to evaluate intelligence and creativity. Il existe un besoin d'outils psychologiques qui evaluent le fonctionnement cognitif de maniere integree. Nous avons etudie les preuves de la validite de la batterie de l'evaluation intellectuelle et creative - adultes (BAICA). 99 etudiants ont participe (51 femmes), ages de 15 a 17 ans. Le BAICA se compose de cinq sous-tests cognitifs et d'un sous-test creatif. Les tests qui ont ete utilises comme criteres externes etaient: la batterie de tests de raisonnement (BPR-5), le test de l'attention divisee (TEADI) et alternatif (TEALT) et les tests de Torrance. Les resultats ont montre des correlations significatives (p > .05) entre les sous-tests cognitifs de BAICA avec des tests d'intelligence (.28 a .52) et de creativite (.26 a .54). Il a ete conclu que BAICA est une mesure valable pour evaluer l'intelligence et la creativite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated how advertisers from the creation area of large advertising agencies perceive and characterize their creative process. Thirteen Brazilian professionals were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed by content analysis. Results indicate that several stages of the creative process overlap, such as the incubation period of one job functioning as the preparation for the next. Motivating factors include pleasure of the act of creating, media visibility and its social reach. Limiting factors include the agencies' excessive departmentalization, reduced deadlines, and the clients' subjectivity influencing the advertisement approval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated, in a sample of 66 elementary school pedagogical coordinators, factors that hamper teachers to stimulate the development of student creativity and strategies to be used by the coordinator to support teachers in promoting creativity in the classroom. Participants completed a questionnaire consisting of a checklist of obstacles to creativity in the classroom and four open questions. The most indicated inhibitory factors included the lack of knowledge by the teachers of pedagogical practices that favor the development of students' creativity and of texts in this respect, as well as insecurity to test new pedagogical practices. Providing courses, guidance, support and incentive for teachers were the procedures most frequently pointed out by coordinators to assist the teacher in encouraging creativity in the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In almost all of his production, the noted economist and former minister of Culture, Celso Furtado, praised the creativity of the nation as a strategic asset for the emergence of a new sustainable, inclusive and endogenous economic development model. The analytical trajectory of this work turned to literature review to highlight the theoretical contributions of Celso Furtado about the potential arising of a new economy that is intensive in creativity. In turn, the clipping of Celso Furtado's thought is a powerful and current tool to (re)consider the overcoming strategies of the country's underdevelopment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cooperative games have acquired importance in the field of educational methodologies because they are a language accessible to young people, prone to working together and solving problems that would be difficult to access individually. This methodology provides the use and learning of common skills and competences jointly, valuing learning with others, however, the design of these games is still emblematic of educators since the field of studies presents only specific actions, especially when we deal with methodologies for game creation. Our objective, with this study, is to contribute to the methodological field, providing a tool experimented by the LIJC - UFCA, in the design of cooperative games, that structures and interrelates the creative process of decision making. This research uses a bibliographic study that permeates both article and the metod proposal, this study is exploratories research and a game production experience report, a product refined by the project and applied to participants from different institutions. This work resulted in an activity of a playful character, full of meanings and structured in concepts such as horizontal education, learning with others, mutual respect and dialogical; where we conclude that for the success of a method, the conceptual contribution and experimentation must be allied, without forgetting the primacy of the sense of an integral education of the human being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to show that adolescence in the process of personal maturation, as understood by Winnicott, can be considered a privileged moment for the exercise of philosophical reflection. Although immaturity is the most striking characteristic of this stage of maturation, bringing with it many tensions for the young and the adults, I will try to point out that it is open to the adolescent - along with his creative potential - the possibility of asking expensive questions to philosophy - as the meaning of existing - with the chance to recreate their own answers, recreating themselves with philosophy. This recreation can only take place without claiming to the adolescent the need for philosophical rigor in the formulation of his explanations, but fostering in him the opportunity to explore the potential space in which philosophy must be developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to analyze the psychological and environmental factors that influence Brazilian women's creative talent in different fields. The sample was composed of six women whose creative talent was recognized by awards. The instrument was an Interview Guide composed by semiopen questions related both to creative process and life trajectory. A content analysis of the participants' responses indicates that some categories are frequently present in their speech: environmental factors favorable to creativity; mentoring; motivation; barriers; personal and professional life management; creative process; personal and cognitive characteristics. In conclusion, it points out that it is important to understand the psychological aspects and the environmental conditions that favor women's creative talent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses creativity in teaching. It is intended to contribute with reflections that support innovating practices at school. The study is anchored in historical-cultural psychology which understands human being as skilled to re-signify senses. Addressing the constitution of human beings as a creative and creator being brings options in a time in which the teacher reproduces alienation processes. The context and the experienced relations are essential for the triggering of the creative process. Both interpersonal relations and work are marked by competitiveness, individualism flexibility and quickness. Such circumstance hinders the creative potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The creative industry has been gaining importance in the economic scenario in the last two decades. In this context, innovation and creativity play a central role in the survival of organizations that make up the creative industries. Among these sectors, we highlight the design offices. This papers' objective is to analyze the perception of the managers of the design offices on the concept of innovation and its antecedent factors. Thus, we carried out an exploratory research of qualitative nature. Two design and small-sized consulting firms were selected to serve as study objects. The results demonstrated that the understanding of innovation for these two offices differs. As influential factors of innovation in these firms, the following stand out: participation and involvement with the client in the projects, the creative capacity of the employees, the briefing process and the sharing of ideas. We conclude that the major challenge faced by design professionals is to understand what the customer wants and to turn this idea into a value product to the end consumer. Further studies may measure the influence of these factors on the innovative performance of design offices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creativity, as a transversal pedagogical axis of educational intervention projects that take place in schools, is the focus of the following paper. It presents the results of a research project that was developed in four 4th grade children groups in Portugal, in one of the areas of Study of the Environment. This is a study where the challenges and demands of 21st century schools are discussed, which explains the articulation between Creativity and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), whose academic potential the research project can prove. In addition, it proves that the cooperative organization of learning environments is an inseparable factor in the construction of educational environments where creativity is understood as a goal and a curricular and pedagogical reference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Creative Potential for Organizations (EPCO), with the intention of assessing creativity in corporate environments. The sample was composed of 170 professionals from different areas, of both sexes, 71% female, with ages ranging between 18 and 63 years (34.23±10.14). The results indicated that the relevance of a factorial solution consisting of: Factor 1, with 16 items interpreted as restrictions and barriers for creativity in which content negatively affects creative expression; and factor 2, that has 12 items interpreted as attributes and features that encourage creativity, including content that elicits creative expression. As to the accuracy of the instrument, by means of Cronbach's alpha coefficients, the test showed good internal consistency points for both factors. It is concluded that, based on the results of initial studies, the EPCO presented satisfactory psychometric properties for the assessment of creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of the current text is to highlight the role of the individual in creativity in organisations. This role has been strangely disregarded in recent years, as modern accounts of creativity have been emphasising the idea that creativity is only defined in context. This main stream argues that creativity is a process that essentially occurs within a functional, relational, and organisational context in which workers are inserted. Key authors defending such a position include the likes of Amabile (1996), Csikszentmihalyi (1996), and, more recently, Glăveanu (2010a, 2010b). This is a vision rooted in the psychosocial interactionist perspective, which has also had a considerable impact in other areas in psychology, sociology, management and other social and human sciences. This supremacy, with regards to creativity, has led many to forget the role of the individual person in the creative process and output, removing their responsibility and protagonism for generating and producing ideas. Hence, the current text intends to bring back to discussion the individual bases of creativity, that people can have an existence isolated from external influences, further defending that the concept can and should be defined out of context, rather than in context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the Communication Naipes Game as an attention device in a reality which is as globalized as permeated by an intense communicative web. It is about a didactic possibility developed from Game Theory which is investigated as a teaching strategy as well as a learning experience. In order to understand just how games can help the teaching-learning process as a tool for economy attention, we have also seized upon notions like globalization, communication and creativity, all of them consistent with our object of study and vital to the attempt of suggesting alternatives to new pedagogic proposals. As we take over what diverts our students' interest and transform it into a tool to get their attention, we develop considerations about the need of: appealing to narratives which are not necessarily formally thought; creating recreational spaces; challenging students using provoking and engrossing activities; developing student' competences such as autonomy, creativity and social interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we will discuss the relationship between contemporary entertainment cinema and postmodernity, trying to understand if the discourse of "lack of creativity" by the content present in the cinematographic productions is directly related to the characteristics of a postmodern historical context And tied to what is now called the Consumer Society. To do so, we will analyze various considerations of academically recognized scholars who can collaborate for the discussion about this theme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay we intend to discuss the modern table fellowship meals, with the backdrop of the food and the work of chefs. These professionals, through the formulation of the menus, enable people to eat whatever they want and to try new flavors, and favor the incorporation of new food modes. Therefore, the aim was to investigate and discuss the role of creativity of the chefs in preparing menus and the impacts of this action on food consumption. In this investigation were conducted semi-structured interviews with heads of a la carte restaurants located in the south central region of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The interviews were conducted by the saturation of information and the processing and interpretation of results allowed to establishing a relationship between the manifest content in the discourse and the scientific literature. The creative process of the heads and therefore their influence on new modes of contemporary food, may indicate a new route for studies related to eating behavior. It was found that, in times of food modernity, creativity, personal and professional experience and the excitement caused by it on the client are foundations of the work of the chef. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The formal teaching of musical instruments is commonly linked to a didactic paradigm based on mechanical repetition and formation of stereotypes, often without considerations of the student's inner motivations. This approach invariably fails to establish sufficient connections with other subdisciplines within the area of Music. Given the situation, this paper intends to discuss alternative approaches and pedagogical tools for instrumental practices, based on the principles of questioning and stimulating creativity. By encouraging the adoption of an active and critical role, beyond reflected and conscious decisions, the aim is to ensure the autonomy and respect to the identity of each student as primary goals by articulating both their aesthetic preferences and their technical skills, thus enabling them to participate in the construction of their own knowledge. Furthermore, we intend to dilute the dichotomy between the learning process and performance itself - often regarded only as the final product, created in public -, by proposing that both forms are inserted in the same continuous. Thus, issues related to musical aspects of "how" and "why" will become as relevant as "what" is done musically. Regarding the empirical aspect of the investigation, the method of action research was applied with the collaboration of six guitarists students from Brazilian and Portuguese universities. The results obtained by inter-subjective consensus in that particular context aims to serve as opportunities to experiment other ways of teaching musical instruments in the context of formal institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creativity and divergent thinking are cognitive processes involved in generation of new ideas and solutions that can contribute to innovation in organizations. Studies about creativity's antecedent have mostly focused on individual' characteristics, teams and organizational setting conditions; less attention has been given to cognitive stimulation. Along these lines, the present study investigates the effect of cognitive stimulation through music on divergent thinking. It is based on studies related to the Mozart effect that led to the proposition that exposure to music can lead to better performance in the short term, in specific cognitive abilities. An experiment with 133 students from business schools and international relations, divided into different groups was held: two were exposed to musical stimulation with different styles (rock and Mozart) and another had not cognitive stimulation before performing creative tasks. Divergent thinking was assessed by a subjective approach (top two scoring method). It was observed, using the variance analysis is (ANOVA), the groups exposed to music had higher levels of divergent thinking, compared to the control group. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since Skinner, Behavior Analysis's authors contributed to describe and explain the creative doing. To evaluate the literature on the subject, a review of a 51 articles sample extracted of 280 found using the search term "creative" was realized in three journals (The Behavior Analyst, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis), since the first publication until the year 2015. The results showed that various concepts and procedures are involved when referring to creative behavior in behavior analytic perspective, there being not a unified research area on the subject. Despite this, technologies to produce new responses are available, being distinguished the direct reinforcement of vary. Was evaluated if the results obtained with these procedures complies or not to Skinner's requirements to consider creative behavior. The social validation procedure used in earlier studies of the sample appears to be an appropriate alternative methodology for this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the increasing number of prominent women in the various sectors of society, this research aimed to investigate their styles of thinking and creativity and to verify differences in the environmental and psychological factors that influence the creative excellence of Brazilian women in different areas. The sample were 20 Brazilian women (11 recognized for creative excellence through awards and 9 not recognized for creative excellence and without awards). The instruments were a Interview Guide, the Thinking and Creating Styles Scale and a Creative Production Analysis Guide. The Mann-Whitney test was used to compare differences between women with creative excellence and not creative. As for the interviews, a content analysis was carried out and the Chi-squared distribution was used for the categories of answers. There were significant differences between the two groups of women in the interview content. It was concluded on the importance of knowing the factors that help achieve excellence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aimed to investigate the perception of teachers on their teaching practices regarding students' creativity in classroom. The methods were delimited by a descriptive quantitative approach through a field study. The study observed thirty teachers from five courses from a higher education institution in the state of Rondônia, Brazil. It was used the Inventory of Teaching Practices for Creativity in Higher Education which aims to evaluate the teaching procedures that favor the development and expression of creative abilities of college students. The results revealed that teachers have positive perceptions regarding their teaching practices, which encourage the students' creativity. It was also observed that teachers who had the lowest perception regarding their teaching practices were those who taught a greater amount of subjects and greater workload, especially the ones from Applied Social Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this theoretical essay is to analyze the relationship between the individual and creative management. Defends itself an adaptation of a consistent management model with the nuances of organizational universe called creative economy. This symbolic space for creative production is revealed to be characterized by precarious jobs. The demand for attuning the identity of the creative worker with the culture of post-Fordist organizations leads to reflections about the potential for creative collaborations with technologies centered on the search for work policies adequate to the new logic of the market. This requires the formulation of systems that provide incentive for innovative solutions and allow for flexible hours and the open work environments that nurture creativity. The text makes a proposition to consolidate management of creative organizations aligned with the identity characteristics of the creative individual in three levels: individual, group and cultural. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of the creative personality has been one of the focuses of researchers in the creativity field. However, there are few instruments that assess this variable. In particular, in Portugal, the Creative Personality Scale (EPC), composed by 30 items, was the first instrument' which enables the evaluation of this dimension. This research presents the validation of the Creative Personality Scale (CPS). A total of 784 subjects have participated on this study. The results presented an internal consistency of the instrument of .92. The exploratory factorial analysis, EFA, showed the unidimensionality of the scale, and the confirmatory factorial analysis, CFA, with the use of RMSEA, RMR, GFI and CFI, confirmed these results. We obtained an instrument that has good psychometric qualities, and that can contribute to future researches seeking to understand the relationship between creative personality and other variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to demonstrate the existence of a relationship of influence between entrepreneurs' attitudes to creativity and business innovation practices is strongest in the case of the creative industries. With this purpose, a sample of 454 managers of micro and medium-sized companies (94 belonged to the creative industries) was surveyed, using an inventory of innovative business practices, adapted from the COTEC Portugal application questionnaire of SME innovation network; and the scale of attitudes towards creativity, built from Sternberg & Lubart's (1996) investment theory. The analysis of results confirmed the proposition and presented the innovative manager as a disciplined individual, driven to collaboration with the employees. Although this research requires further evidence, the results suggest interesting characterizations of the managers who develop their activity in the cluster of creative industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article in question refers, above all, present and analyze concepts involving the creative process in its various revelations, covering views of different researchers and hence disparate segments of study. To this end, are exposed concepts of Amabile (1993), Amabile and Pillemer (2011), Anzieu (1981), Howkins (2005), Kneller (1978), Osborn (1987), Rodriguez Estrada (1992), Torrance (1976) and Von Oech (1999). At the end of work, it appears that while using dissimilar classifications, the steps of the creative process, the researchers analyzed in much look; there is, even, a broad reference to the step called “incubation". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]