This volume addresses key issues and assumptions about creativity as a potential discipline, making the progress of creativity studies more explicit and communicable to those within and outside of the field.

Introduction Disciplinary Perspectives The Emergence of a Discipline: Issues and Approaches to the Study of Creativity Creatology: A Potential Paradigm for an Emerging Discipline A Community of Scholars: An Examination of the Antecedents of the1990 International Working Creativity Conference Participants The Progress and Potential of an Emerging Discipline The Content and Logical Structure of Creativity Concepts: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Creativity Research Experiences in Developing Technology for Creative Education Creativity, Past, Present, and Future: A Philosophical Perspective Research Perspectives: Organizing Research Frameworks A Contextual Organizer for Conducting Creativity Research Using Alternative Perspectives to Build More Robust Theories of Organizational Creativity Research Perspectives: Examining Research Issues Toward an Improved Understanding of Creativity within People: The Level-Style Distinction Cognitive and Psychometric Issues in Creativity Research Guilford's SOI Model and Behavioral Intelligence with Special Reference to Creative Behavioral Abilities A Social Psychological Perspective on Creativity: Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity in the Classroom and Workplace Research Perspectives: Confronting Cultural Challenges Ethnocentric Confines in Creativity Research Human Potential: An Exploration of the Role of Creativity from an Arab Perspective Historical Perspectives Creativity Past, Present, and Future: Pioneer's' Perspectives Moving to a Desired Future State in the Field of Creativity: A Postscript Author Index Subject Index