KIE 2024 Creativity Book Project
Book Title: “Creativity, Motivation, Neuroscience and their Future”
Call for Chapter Proposals
Colleague,
You are invited you to submit a proposal for a chapter in the 2024 KIE Conference Book Series entitled “Creativity, Motivation, Neuroscience and their Future” to be edited by Dr Fredricka K. Reisman, founder of Drexel University School of Education, Director of the Freddie Reisman Center for Translational Research in Creativity and Motivation (FRC), Co-director of the Drexel-Torrance Center for Creativity and Innovation and President Emeritus of the American Creativity Association. The editor is particularly interested in chapter proposals that speak to the following areas or questions:
i. How is neuroscience related to creativity?
ii. What neuroscience says about the link between creativity and madness?
iii. Do creative brains work differently?
iv. According to neuroscience at what age is the mind most creative?
v. Why are some people born creative?
vi. Why do adults lose their creativity?
vii. Why Is Creativity in Decline?
viii. Neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity
ix. The neural bases of creativity
x. Is creativity inheritable
xi. Does brain damage affect creativity?
xii. Do neurodegenerative conditions affect creativity?
xiii. Neuroimaging studies of creativity
xiv. The neuroscientific basis of creativity-enhancing methodologies
xv. Applying the neuroscience of creativity to creativity training
xvi. Are creative brains built differently?
xvii. Is there a neurological relationship between intelligence and creativity?
xviii. How can we deal with ignorance and prejudice against creativity?
xix. How does Self-directed Learning relate to Independent Meaningful Learning?
xx. Unschooling – what is it?.
xxi. Translational research in creativity and motivation.
xxii. What do parents want out of their children’s schooling?
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, you must send cc 200-word summary or abstract of your proposed chapter to the KIE team for review and acceptance by the deadline date of 31 January 2024.
Once your proposal is accepted, the deadline for final chapter submission, camera-ready, is 30 June 2024. Online publication date: August 2024 (print publication follows afterwards).
The absolute word limit per chapter including references is 15,000. ALL tables, charts, and graphs must be CAMERA-READY and NO foot notes please. Referencing style should be APA. The book size is 16cmx23cm.
As stated, the book will be published in July just before the KIE Conference opens. As always, each conference registered participant will receive a free print copy; non-participants will access the book online.
The Conference will publish a four-page newsletter that showcases award-wining *authors – in addition to being recognised at the Annual E. Paul Torrance International Roundtable on Creative Thinking, which is in-filled into the conference.
Please send your proposed summary chapter to: kieteam[@]kiecon.org.
If you are interested in the KIE conference or attending and participating in the Torrance Roundtable, Reisman Diagnostics Creativity Assessment Special Interest Group (RDCA SIG), Kaufman Family Research Symposium, or any of the KIE in-filled events, please send enquiries to kieteam [@] kiecon.org.
Best wishes
James Ogunleye, PhD
Chairman, 2024 KIE Conference & Creativity Book Projects
*KIE Recognition Award for Best Papers [Awards Homepage]
The Best Paper Recognition Awards are presented to the individuals judged by the Creativity Experts Panel of the KIE International Advisory Board to have written the best papers appearing in the annual KIE creativity volume. The award criteria are:
*broad interest,
*clear and scholarly presentation,
*APA format,
*research or essay focus, and
*scholarly presentation.
KIE Creativity Expert Panel & Awards Judges
Fredricka Reisman, PhD, President Emeritus, American Creativity Association Drexel University, USA & Professor Emeritus, Drexel University, USA
James Kaufman, PhD, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, USA
Larry Keiser, PhD, Treasurer, American Creativity Association & Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Education, Drexel University, PA, USA
Gerard Puccio, PhD, Department Chair and Professor, International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State University of New York, USA
Gavin Suss, PhD, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel
Proposals due by May 28, 2023, and should include the following:
- Proposal (1-page): title, abstract, key ideas/debates and categories addressed, keywords (5-7)
- Author(s)’ name(s)/affiliation(s) + short bio(s)
- Corresponding author email contact (if more than one chapter author, editors will interact with the first author)
Submit proposals to:
KIE Creativity Books Project:
Email: Kieteam @ kiecon.org
Timeline:
- Prospective authors submit proposal by January 31, 2024 (reviewed on a rolling basis so early submissions welcome)
- Invitation for full chapter submission by February 15, 2024
- Full chapter due by June 30, 2024
- Authors invited to present their chapter content at the KIE conference in Madrid: July 25-27 (virtual option available)
- Publication anticipated August 2024
Exciting news will follow as plans finalize to connect the book with the 2024 KIE international conference. For example, the first Global Lecture presented by one of the chapter authors will occur immediately after the RDCA Sig panel. The lecture event will conclude with an award/s for one or two selected individual/s – something like the “KIE Award for Contributions to Global Well-being in Creativity, Culture, Innovation and Motivation”.
Editor Bios and contact information
Fredricka Reisman, PhD, is Emerita Professor and Founder Drexel School of Education; Creator and and Former Director, Creativity and Innovation Programs; Director Freddie Reisman Center for Translational Research in Creativity and Motivation (FRC); Co-Director, Drexel-Torrance Center for Creativity and Innovation; former Drexel Assistant Provost- Assessment & Evaluation. Dr. Reisman was awarded the 2001 New Millennium Foundation Technology Award, the national 2002 Champion of Creativity Award by the American Creativity Association (ACA) and was the recipient of the 2017 National Association for Gifted Children E. Paul Torrance Award. She was honored in Spring 2020 by Drexel where the university-wide faculty creativity award has been renamed “Freddie Reisman Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Awards”.She is Co-Founder- Education, Learning, and Brain Sciences (E-LaBS) Research Collaborative; and President Emerita, American Creativity Association. Dr. Reisman continues to teach in the Creativity & Innovation programs and to chair and serve on dissertation committees for doctoral students interested in the Creativity & Innovation concentration. Her PhD in Mathematics Education is from Syracuse University. Prior to Drexel, Dr. Reisman served as Professor and Chair of the Division of Elementary Education at the University of Georgia; a grades 3 and 5 elementary, middle school, high school mathematics teacher in New York State; and as a mathematics education instructor at Syracuse University. Dr, Reisman has been awarded over $14,800,000 private and government grants to support her research and teacher ed projects and has served as evaluator on funded engineering projects and numerous Pennsylvania and New York State university teacher certification programs. She has created several books, contributions to books, journal publications, and assessments that focus on mathematics learning and teaching and creativity applications including a 2021 co-authored book published by Routledge entitled Using Creativity to Address Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Dyscalculia: Assessment and Techniques. She has served since 2013 as editor for the Knowledge, Innovation & Enterprise (KIE) conference book and is co-editor of the 2022 KIE conference book with Dr. Kelly. You can email her at freddie@drexel.edu.
Also note – very important
- The absolute word limit per chapter including references is 15,000. ALL tables, charts, and graphs must be CAMERA-READY and NO foot notes please. Referencing style should be APA. The book size is 16cmx23cm.
2. As stated, the book will be published in August just the KIE Conference closes. As always, each conference registered participant will receive a free print copy; non-participants will access the book online.
3. The Conference will publish a four-page newsletter that showcases award-wining author/s – in addition to being recognised at the Annual E. Paul Torrance International Roundtable on Creative Thinking & RDCA SIG, which are in-filled into the conference.