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Academic and professional publications

Here are a few of my recent publications for academics and educators:

‘Creative glide space’, in C Bannerman (ed), The Creative Process in Contemporary Performing Arts, 2006, Middlesex University Press, pp 58-70.

‘Beyond cleverness: how to be smart without thinking.’ In J Henry (ed), Creative Management and Development, London: Sage, 2006, pp. 47-63.

‘Thinking at the edge: developing soft creativity’. Cambridge Journal of Education, 2006, 36(3), 351-62.

‘Mindfulness, learning and the brain’. Journal of Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, 2006, in press

GL Claxton with L Edwards and V Scale-Constantinou, ‘Cultivating creative mentalities: A framework for education’. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2006, 1, 57-61.

‘Why so wayward?’ The Psychologist, 2006, 19(4), 212-14.

‘Construindo a capacidade de aprender’. Patio Revista Pedagogica, 2006, 10, 16-19.

Howard-Jones, P.A., Blakemore, S.J., Samuel, E.A., Summers, I.R., Claxton,

G. ‘Semantic divergence and creative story generation: an fMRI investigation’. Cognitive Brain Research, 2005, 25, 240-50.