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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter One - BURSTING THE BANKS
Introduction
The war for talent
Into the abyss
The world’s biggest business
You’re going the wrong way
The old model
One small step?
Going headlong
Getting around
Getting the message
Think small
Think big
Just think
New work for old
E-business
The creative industries
Telecommunications
Population growth
The grey revolution
Home alone
Seeing the future?
Academic inflation
The overqualified
A falling currency
Under pressure
Academic deficiency
The underqualified
Conclusion
Chapter Two - THE SEPTIC FOCUS
Introduction
Thinking about intelligence
Images of intelligence
Measuring your mind?
The tip of the iceberg?
The groves of Academeia
The triumph of science
The rise of the individual
I think, therefore I am
Rattling the cage
What’s the question?
The rise of education
The grammar-school curriculum
Educating everybody
Arts and sciences
Beyond the ivory tower
The corporate university
Facing the future
Conclusion
Chapter Three - KNOWING YOUR MIND
Introduction
All in the mind
The ghost in the machine
Mapping the mind
Conclusion
Chapter Four - BEING CREATIVE
Introduction
Creating problems
What is creativity?
The meaning of life
What do you mean?
Speaking your mind
Thinking differently
Modes of understanding
Beyond the here-and-now
Changing our minds
The creative process
Controlling the medium
The phases of creativity — successive approximations
Crossing the tracks
Focal and subsidiary awareness
The dynamics of creativity
Conclusion
Chapter Five - FEELING BETTER
Introduction
Feeling bad
The exile of feeling
The division of the arts and sciences
The Oxford Psychosis
What are emotions?
Arousals and attitudes
The functions of feelings
In two minds
Arts and sciences
Objectivity and subjectivity
The subjectivity of science
Whose problem is this?
Structures of ideas
Personal judgement
Beyond reason - the limits of logic
Mind the gap
The logic of beauty
Successive approximations
The objectivity of art
The stuff from the bucket
In the flow
Two types of people?
The rational individual
The natural individual
Personal growth
Educating the emotions
Conclusion
Chapter Six - YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Introduction
Defining culture
Living in two worlds
Networks of knowledge
The dynamics of culture
The rise of the specialist
Culture and creativity
New art for old
A new picture of things
A new renaissance?
Studying ourselves
The art of science and the science of art
Cultural revolutions
The structure of feeling
Out of the blue?
Cultivating creativity
Chapter Seven - BALANCING THE BOOKS
Introduction
Identification
Looking for creative ability
Generic creativity
Domain-specific creativity
Facilitating
Harnessing creative outcomes
Creativity in crisis
The challenge for education
Frameworks and cages
The balance of teaching
The ecology of human resources
ENDNOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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