How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-level Thinking

In a world plagued by enormous, complex problems requiring long-range vision and interdisciplinary insights, the need to attend to the influence of dogmatic thinking on the development of high ability and creative intelligence is pressing. This volume introduces the problem of dogmatism broadly and makes the case for the need to clarify and address its influence. Bringing together leaders in the field of creative studies and in other relevant fields relevant to analyses of dogmatism and the ethical problems it foments, this panoramic view of the topic represents interdisciplinary bridge building with the potential to generate new insights about the education of creative young minds.