Beth Hennessey - Motivation and Creativity in the Classroom

Описание: Beth Ann Hennessey, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at Wellesley College.

She is a former elementary school teacher, now researcher focused on motivation and creativity across cultures.

She has carried out numerous studies showing a powerful link between intrinsic task motivation and creativity of performance. This relation holds for everyone from preschoolers to seasoned research and development scientists. Yet most classrooms and workplaces are set up to kill intrinsic motivation ... with rewards, evaluations, competitions, and the like. At present, She is involved with a number of cross-cultural investigations of this phenomenon and is also collaborating with colleagues at MIT and in Singapore to develop a cutting-edge university curriculum to be used in the new IDC (International Design Center) at Singapore University of Technology and Design.