Creative Intelligence Toward Theoretic Integration

The Contributions to this volume are part of a coliaborative, interdiscipinary attempt to clarify, expand, and discover integrative patterns within current conceptual foundations for research and practice in fields pertaining to creative intelligence. Chapters in the first section establish the lay of the land for this ambitious project. The authors in this section also make recommendations about the most effective ways to approach broad-scope exploration of theory pertaining to creative intelligence. The next section includes several conceptual frameworks that have potential for incorporating a wide range of phenomena pertaining to creative intelligence. Section Three includes clarifications of environmental influences on the development of creative intelligence and the sociocultural selection of giftedness. Authors in this section also deal with internal cognitive processes and the moral-ethical dimensions of mind. Finally, Section Four returns to broad-scope perspective-taking.