The impact of various creative initiatives on wellbeing: a study of children in English primary schools

The following paper builds uon a survey of primary students’ wellbeing in an attempt to assess the impact of various creative initiatives on this aspect of their lives. Three case studies were conducted in schools with some of the highest aggregate wellbeing scores, all three schools having also been engaged in various extended Creative Partnership programmes. Teachers, Creative Practitioners and students were interviewed and observed during both normal lessons and Creative Partnership activities. It is posited that the implementation of creative activities under the framework adopted by Creative Partnership enhances both hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of wellbeing and accords with theories of motivation which stress the value of promoting student competencies and autonomy and creating classroom climates which promote connectedness.     

The careers of fine artists and the embedded creative

While there is a growing body of scholarship on the creative industries and on the career trajectories of graduates from creative industries programmes, there has to date only been a limited amount of research that examines in detail, the careers of fine arts graduates. Fine art is arguably the least ‘vocational’ of creative disciplines, in that there are relatively few employers that seek to employ fine artists as fine artists. If fine arts graduates are not employed in their chosen field – that is, in the ‘Creative Trident’ terminology, in a core creative occupation – how do their careers parallel or differ from those of other creative graduates? Do they find employment as ‘embedded creatives’, using or applying their experience and practice in sectors beyond the core creative industries, or as ‘support workers’, enabling and facilitating the creative work of others? Do they experience portfolio careers? And how do their artistic training and attitudes to creativity affect their working relationships and experiences? This article draws on rich qualitative data about the experiences of a small group of graduates (including the author) who all graduated from the same course at the same institution in the UK in 1994, to provide some insights into the career paths and trajectories of a sample of fine arts graduates.     

心智游移的适应性功能及其理论解释

心智游移是指注意从当前任务或者外界环境转移到内部想法和感觉的现象。尽管以往的研究主要关注心智游移的代价,但是最近的研究发现心智游移也具有一些积极的适应性功能。相关功能主要包括外部监控、自传体计划、提高创造力、促进决策和降低负性情绪等。相应的理论解释有情境管理假说、内容管理假说、意识连续体假说等。未来的研究应该进一步为相关功能提供直接的证据,也可以从内容管理、时间管理和情境管理的角度探索提高心智游移适应性功能的技术。     

Integrating Creative Thinking Skills Pedagogies into a Higher Education Visual Arts Course

Although there has been increasing international emphasis on creativity in education, many creativity training programmes have focused on enhancing students' creative thinking skills with few studies on how these skills can be integrated into the teaching of subject disciplines. As a member of a Community of Practice project that ran from spring 2021 to summer 2022 at my university, I worked with ten university teachers from multiple disciplines to develop and implement instructional strategies to foster students' creative thinking skills. The paper documented the development, implementation and evaluation of creative thinking skills teaching strategies for a higher education course in visual arts. Both the development of the teaching strategies and the measurement of the impact on student learning have undergone vigorous research procedures and made reference to the existing literature. The effectiveness of the activities was assessed using multiple methods including the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, a self-report inventory, and a focus group interview. The results indicated the new learning activities enhanced students' creative thinking skills. They also showed that creativity can be developed through teaching while revealing that playfulness, freedom and structure, group interactions, and problem-solving activities are beneficial for the development of creative thinking skills. Readers may better understand the different ways in which creative thinking skills instruction materials can be developed and incorporated into teaching of visual arts by making reference to the strategies suggested and the process of development in the paper.     

变革型领导对团队创造力的影响机制研究:团队反思与团队边界管理的中介作用

团队创造力已成为新经济条件下企业获取竞争优势的根源。尽管已有研究发现变革型领导对团队创造力具有促进作用,但其中的具体作用机制并未得到充分诠释。基于文献研究和实际调研,构建包含变革型领导、团队反思、团队边界管理及团队创造力相关关系的理论模型。通过对30家高新技术企业的128个知识型团队的问卷调查研究,结果表明:变革型领导对团队创造力有积极影响;团队反思、团队边界管理在变革型领导与团队创造力之间具有部分中介作用;团队反思对团队边界管理有正向促进作用。因此,为提高团队创造力,领导不但要塑造自身的变革型领导风格,而且应实施团队边界管理,促进团队反思。     

Picturing How Life Insurance Matters

What kind of object is private life insurance? To discuss this question, this article examines how life insurance is pictured, that is, explained and concretized with words and visual images, in the promotion of private life insurance in Finland between 1945 and 2000. In principle, life insurance can only be used for assessing and securing the economic value of life. The empirical material shows, however, that life insurance, as an object, can only exist if economic value and other values constantly overflow into each other, and calculation and affect are made to intertwine. In order to objectify their potential customers' lives as economic potential, as commodities, insurance companies have indeed had to objectify life – yet not only in terms of monetary value, but simultaneously and as importantly, also as something that is irreducible to monetary value. Hence the promotion of life insurance enacts a double stabilization of objects. On the one hand, advertisements and leaflets show how life insurance matters, what it is capable of, and thus stabilize the understanding of insurance itself as a tool. On the other hand, the promotional materials both stabilize and mobilize ‘life’ as an assemblage of heterogeneous practices and modes of valuation that is irreducible to economic potential.     

Segmenting the audience of a cause-related marketing viral campaign

This paper analyses the attitudinal effect of a cause-related marketing campaign which becomes viral through social networks. This attitudinal response is observed in three Internet user segments with different affinity levels: i) strong (familiar with the sponsoring brand and the promoted cause); ii) intermediate (familiar with the brand or the cause); and iii) weak (without previous experiences of either the brand or the social cause). To develop our experiment, 360 Internet surfers agree to participate. Their attitudes were measured before and after the showing of a viral spot in which a pet food brand encourages pet adoption. Our results show that a viral campaign works perfectly for the strong-affinity segment and adequately for the week affinity segment. On the contrary, this viral campaign leaves the intermediate-affinity segment indifferent.     

人工智能专利申请的专利保护客体判断

人工智能领域的专利申请是否符合专利保护客体的规定,进而能否获得专利权,是人们十分关心的问题.为了进一步明确相关的审查标准,国家知识产权局于2019年12月31日发布了关于修改《专利审查指南》的公告,对于包含算法或商业规则和方法等智力活动的规则和方法特征的专利申请,如何判断其是否符合专利保护客体、如何进行创造性的判断,进...     

加强实践教学改革 培养创新型人才

实践教学是高等教育教学的重要组成部分,在培养学生创新意识、创新精神等方面有不可替代的作用.目前,高校实践教学存在对实践教学重要性认识不足、教学内容单一、不对实践教学进行考核等问题.为此,应加强实践教师队伍建设,提高教师对实践教学重要性的认识,完善实践教学评价体系,建立开放的实验室教学模式,设立独立的实验教学体系,制定合理的实践教学评价标准,推进实习基地建设.     

31种科技期刊发行量调查及其对广告客户的影响

通过了解31种科技期刊印数、实际发行量及其广告价格,分析实际发行量与公布的发行量的关系,以及广告价格与发行量的关系.结果表明,平均发行量为3 840册,普遍存在虚报现象,平均虚报百分率为290.5%,广告报价与期刊发行量的相关系数为0.16.认为期刊社提供的发行量与实际发行量出入很大,为了适应我国加入WTO后的形势,应当成立类似于美国发行量设计局(ABC)之类的审计机构.