Creative Education Foundation
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The Creative Education Foundation ("CEF") is an independent, nonprofit membership organization of leaders in the field of creativity theory and practice. It regards itself as the "Centre for Applied Imagination".
Its mission is to help individuals, organizations and communities transform themselves as they confront real-world challenges.
. His classic book, Applied Imagination, continues to inspire the work of CEF.
Along with Sidney Parnes
, Osborn developed the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process
(commonly referred to as CPS). For more than 50 years, CEF has been teaching adults and children in organizations, schools and communities how to use this proven process to develop new ideas, solve problems and implement solutions.
CEF sponsored a Leadership Convocation in 1960, bringing together the pioneers of the creative thinking movement, including Calvin Taylor, J. P. Guilford
, Ellis Paul Torrance
, and Donald MacKinnon
.
CEF fosters a culture of courage that is open, dynamic and diverse. It is a community where a passion for creative thinking, learning and the sharing of ideas thrives. CEF helps people learn to apply their imagination to their life, their work and their community.
As the pioneer in creating and delivering programs, products and services that integrate creativity into adult and childhood education, CEF touches thousands of people’s lives each year. CEF offers these ways to engage one's imagination and to discover ways of unleashing one's creativity to transform the world ...
and Roni Reiter-Palmon.
Its mission is to help individuals, organizations and communities transform themselves as they confront real-world challenges.
History
Founded in 1954, CEF is the recognized world leader in Applied Imagination. Alex Osborn, an adman and educator, not only founded CEF, but also invented brainstorming and co-founded the advertising firm, BBDOBBDO
BBDO is a worldwide advertising agency network, with its headquarters in New York City. The agency began in 1891 with George Batten's Batten Company, and later in 1928, through a merger of BDO and Batten Co. the agency became BBDO...
. His classic book, Applied Imagination, continues to inspire the work of CEF.
Along with Sidney Parnes
Sid Parnes
Dr. Sidney J. Parnes is a retired professor at Buffalo State College and the co-founder of the International Center for Studies in Creativity. The Center is housed within Dr. Sidney J...
, Osborn developed the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process
Creative Problem Solving Process
The Creative Problem Solving Process , also known as the Osborn-Parnes CPS process, was developed by Alex Osborn and Dr. Sidney J. Parnes in the 1950s. CPS is a structured method for generating novel and useful solutions to problems...
(commonly referred to as CPS). For more than 50 years, CEF has been teaching adults and children in organizations, schools and communities how to use this proven process to develop new ideas, solve problems and implement solutions.
CEF sponsored a Leadership Convocation in 1960, bringing together the pioneers of the creative thinking movement, including Calvin Taylor, J. P. Guilford
J. P. Guilford
Joy Paul Guilford was a US psychologist, best remembered for his psychometric study of human intelligence, including the important distinction between convergent and divergent production....
, Ellis Paul Torrance
Ellis Paul Torrance
Ellis Paul Torrance was an American psychologist from Milledgeville, Georgia.After completing his undergraduate degree at Mercer University, he went on to complete a Master's degree at the University of Minnesota, and then a doctorate from the University of Michigan...
, and Donald MacKinnon
Donald Mackinnon
Donald Mackinnon was an Australian politician.Born at Marida Yallock near Boorcan in Victoria to grazier David Mackinnon and Jane Kinross, both Scottish-born, he was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Melbourne University and New College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts...
.
CEF fosters a culture of courage that is open, dynamic and diverse. It is a community where a passion for creative thinking, learning and the sharing of ideas thrives. CEF helps people learn to apply their imagination to their life, their work and their community.
As the pioneer in creating and delivering programs, products and services that integrate creativity into adult and childhood education, CEF touches thousands of people’s lives each year. CEF offers these ways to engage one's imagination and to discover ways of unleashing one's creativity to transform the world ...
Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI)
This annual, international conference inspires people to learn, to engage and to support the global use of Applied Imagination and creativity. It claims to develop one's creative abilities, learn to apply a proven creative thinking process, discover tools and techniques to generate more and better ideas, increase team innovation, encourage young students to think more imaginatively, and improve the community. Held annually since 1954, CPSI is the longest-running creativity conference in the world.Journal of Creative Behavior
For more than 40 years, JCB has been the benchmark scientific periodical with the most current research in creative thinking. It aims to keep one up to date on cutting-edge ideas about creativity in education, psychology, business and arts. The current Editor is Dr. Tom Ward of the University of Alabama. The Associate Editors are James C. KaufmanJames C. Kaufman
James C. Kaufman is a psychologist known for his research on creativity. He is a Professor of Psychology at the California State University, San Bernardino, where he is the director of the Learning Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in Cognitive Psychology, where he...
and Roni Reiter-Palmon.