episodes dedicated to
The Science of Creativity
Our podcast collections bring together episodes focused on specific creativity and education topics, like our Creativity Research collection, which offers a collection of interviews from leading researchers in the field of creativity.
Collection Highlights
Extrensic and Intrensic Motivation in the Classroom with Dr. Teresa Amabile
Unleashing Creativity in Education: Dr. Robert Sternberg on Defying the Crowd
Digging into the Career and Contributions of Dr. Howard Gardner with Dr. Howard Gardner
Everyday Creativity in the Classroom with Dr. Ruth Richards
How Emotions Influence the Creative Process with Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
Educating for Creative Potential with Mark Runco
Discussing Beauty Over Functionality and Malevolent Creativity with Dr. David Cropley
The Creativity Advantage with Dr. James Kaufman
About This Collection
This collection features interviews with some of the most influential voices in creativity research — including Teresa Amabile, Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, James Kaufman, and Ruth Richards — offering insights that directly inform creative teaching and the science of creativity in education.
Explore how educators can nurture creative potential in students, apply research on everyday and eminent creativity in the classroom, and bridge creativity theory with instructional practice. Topics include the neuroscience of creativity, the role of emotion in creative thinking, and strategies to address excellence gaps through creative learning environments.
Whether you’re an educator, emerging scholar, or lifelong learner, these episodes offer compelling conversations and practical ideas to support teaching creativity and fueling creativity in education.
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Selected Episodes
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom (Double Expresso)
Season 10, Episode 13 Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom (Part One) “I think if you can allow your children to explore and experiment with things, even if they're making monstrosities, they're learning. They're learning and they're having fun and...
Creativity: An Ability to Defy the Crowd (Double Expresso)
Season 9, Episode 13 Creativity: An Ability to Defy the Crowd“The most important thing for creativity, it involves both intelligence. Creative intelligence, that is. But the most important thing is your attitudes that you're willing to defy the crowd. ” - Dr. Robert...
The Science Behind the Curtain: Theater’s Role in Boosting Creativity
Season 9, Episode 12 The Science Behind the Curtain: Theater's Role in Boosting Creativity “So what we looked at was what were the psychological skills that teachers were asking students to bring to the material of a theater classroom? So these are the acting habits...
Everyday Creativity in the Classroom (Double Expresso)
Season 9, Episode 1 Everyday Creativity in the ClassroomWhen we say everyday creativity, again, it’s just what you do every day. It’s not only when you do cooking or only when you do something else. It’s what do you do every day? And what is that bringing out from us...
Measuring Creative Potential (by Domain) in Education
Season 8, Episode 5 Measuring Creative Potential in EducationIf in a classroom, you say lets do creative thinking, everyone do what you want, that might seem nice, but its very difficult for measuring anything. So when we give all the kids a specific task its easier...
How emotions influence Teaching Creativity and the Creative Process
Season 6, Episode 6 How Emotions Influence Teaching CreativityThis is what the leaders of the world economy are telling us, and of major organizations this is what we need, but there’s a disconnect from the world of educational priorities. - Dr. Zorana Ivcevic...
Evaluating the Impact of Creativity Interventions in Children (Double Expresso)
Season 5, Episode 7 Evaluating the Impact of Creativity Interventions in Children“I don’t believe that children always need to be doing something to be creative. Sometimes, it happens in the closet of their minds and then it comes out unexpectedly.” - Dr. Patrícia...
Educating and Nurturing Creative Potential in the Classroom
Season 4, Episode 1 Educating for Creative Potential “One of the big things is just for an educator to think divergently him or herself and thereby, to model and value divergent thinking and originality.” - Dr. Mark RuncoMark Runco:Creative potential is very...
How to Engage, Inspire, and Promote Creativity in the Classroom
Season 4, Episode 6 How to Engage, Inspire, and Promote Creativity“Training teachers is the key to so much of this and, of course, there has to be some administrative support for it.” – Dr. Joseph RenzulliJoe Renzulli:That which is evaluated gets done. If we're not...
Why Creative Teaching is About Change in the System
Season 4, Episode 10 Why Creative Teaching is About Change in the System“Once you make this slight shift in how we think, there are really broad and deep implications… The core question implied by the idea of creativity shifts.” – Michael Hanchett HansonMichael...
Discussing Beauty Over Functionality and Malevolent Creativity
Season 3, Episode 1 Discussing Beauty Over Functionality and Malevolent Creativity“The big issue with creativity right now revolves around the future of work and the growing role of AI, so artificial intelligence and automation and related technologies, that are...
The New Science of Self-Actualization and How it Connects to Teaching Creativity
Season 2, Episode 1 The New Science of Self-Actualization and How it Connects to Teaching CreativityI think that we can give them more of a sense of meaning by even just connecting the material that you're teaching them to the relevance to their own life, to the...
Creativity, Multipotentiality, and Supporting Student Interests
Season 2, Episode 4 Talking Talented and Giftedness“One of the major goals of many gifted education models and programs is the development of students’ creativity so that we will have the next generation of inventors, producers, painters, artists, engineers, high...
The role of Serendipity in Creativity and Education
Season 2, Episode 6 The Role of Serendipity in Creativity and Education“That’s what makes serendipity a powerful tool, is that it relies on the prepared mind and it relies on this idea of scarcity of wisdom, of using the accidents that come to you and taking advantage...
Excellence Gaps, Creativity, and Learning Assessments in Education
Season 2, Episode 10 Discussing Excellence Gaps and Creativity“The more that students learn, the more information, the more ‘stuff’… that they have at their mental fingertips, the better off they will be as they try to be creative, especially as they move into their...
Teaching When is Creativity appropriate? (Double Expresso)
Season 1, Episode 6 Teaching When is Creativity Appropriate? Part One“Most educators are already half way to creativity, they just have to open up the curriculum and the experience for themselves and for their students to do things differently… The really beautiful...
Sociocultural Theories of Creativity and Education
Season 1, Episode 9 Sociocultural Theories of Creativity and Education“What sociocultural thinking around creativity does is basically situate the creative person, the creative idea, within a wider context, and more than that, to see that context as an integral part...
Exploring the Latest in Creativity Science
Season 1, Episode 14 Exploring the Latest in Creativity Science“Most of what I think about creativity can be summarized in three words: It all counts.” - Dr. James KaufmanIn this final episode of Season One, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood interview leading...
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