John Baer - Are You Creative?

Описание: John Baer has been teaching at Rider since 1992. Before that he worked as a test developer and researcher at the Educational Testing Service (in Princeton, NJ); taught middle and high school and helped run a large gifted/talented program (in Washington County, MD); developed and ran a program for adolescents at a small psychiatric hospital (in Leitersburg, MD); worked as a newspaper reporter (in Tokyo, Japan); served as an guide/interpreter for the United States Information Agency (in Osaka Japan); worked in the paint shop of a large factory (in Takamatsu, Japan); and drove a truck (throughout the Mid-Atlantic region).

Research Interests

Much of his research and writing has been in the area of creativity, and that work has been supported by generous grants from the National Science Foundation, the Educational Testing Service, the Carnegie Foundation, the National Center for Educational Statistics, and Rider and Rutgers Universities. He's won a few awards, such as the Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology, presented by the Eighth National Conference on College Teaching and Learning (in 1997), the Daniel E. Berlyne Award of the American Psychological Association for the year's best research in the area of creativity and/or the arts (in 1993), and the Iorio Research Award (in 2007). He's a member of the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including the Journal of Creative Behavior (the oldest and most widely read creativity research journal); the American Psychological Association's newest journal, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts; and the International Journal of Thinking & Problem Solving. (For more biography, see this interview that Roeper Review published in January 2009 at http://www.rider.edu/~baer/BaerRoeper....