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The recommended articles and books below are drawn from the "Further Resources" section of Imagination First. You may also be interested in the titles that make up Lincoln Center Institute's Imagination Collection, which was compiled over many years of engagement with the topic of imaginative teaching and learning. You can view the complete collection as it's listed in our library catalog.

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Amabile, Teresa. “How to Kill Creativity.” Originally published in Harvard Business Review, September-October 1998, 77-87. http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/11444_02_Henry_Ch02.pdf

Amabile, Teresa M., and Mukti Khaire. “Creativity and the Role of the Leader.” Harvard Business Review, October 2008, 100. http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2008/10/creativity-and-the-role-of-the-leader/ar/1

Anderson, P.W. “More Is Different.” Science, August 4, 1972, 393. http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~motrunch/Teaching/Phy135b_Winter07/MoreIsDifferent.pdf

Carey, Benedict. “Anticipating the Future to ‘See’ the Present.” New York Times, June 10, 2008, D5. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/health/10iht-10mind.13598228.html

Carey, Benedict. “Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real.” New York Times, December 2, 2008, D5. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/health/02mind.html

Churchill, Winston S. “If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg.” Originally published in Scribner’s Magazine, December 1930. Reprinted in Collected Essays, IV, 7-84. http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/siteinfo/newsround/ifleeclip.html (partial)

Clendaniel, Morgan. “Fall Down, Go Boom.” Good, September-October 2008, 84. http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Features/fall_down_go_boom

Flanigan, James. “Software That Opens Worlds to the Disabled.” New York Times, December 18, 2008, B7. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/business/smallbusiness/18edge.html

Goetz, Thomas. “Freeing the Dark Data of Failed Scientific Experiments.” Wired, October 2007, 31. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-10/st_essay

Greene, Maxine. “Art and Imagination: Reclaiming the Sense of Possibility.” Phi Delta Kappan, January 1, 1995. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6952/is_n5_v76/ai_n28680641

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. “The Path of the Law.” Originally published in 10 Harvard Law Review 457, 1897. http://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm

Holzer, Madeleine F. “Teaching and Learning at Lincoln Center Institute.” Lincoln Center Institute, 2005. http://www.lcinstitute.org/wps/PA_1_0_P1/Docs/494-TALCI.pdf

Lehrer, Jonah. “A New State of Mind.” Seed, July-August 2008, 65. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/a_new_state_of_mind

Ouellette, Jeannine. “The Death and Life of the American Imagination.” The Rake, November 2007. http://www.secretsofthecity.com/magazine/reporting/features/death-and-life-american-imagination

“Scientific American Reports: Special Edition on Perception,” Scientific American, July 15, 2008. http://www.scientificamerican.com/special/toc.cfm?issueid=55&sc=singletopic

Shaw, Jonathan. “The Physics of the Familiar.” Harvard Magazine, March-April 2008, 45. http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/03/the-physics-of-the-famil.html

Sternberg, Robert J. “Creativity Is a Habit.” Education Week, February 22, 2006, 47-64. http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2006/02/22/24sternberg.h25.html&destination=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2006/02/22/24sternberg.h25.html&levelId=2100 (partial)

Stickgold, Robert and Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen. “Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter.” Scientific American Mind, August-September 2008, 23. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-snoozing-makes-you-smarter

 
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