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Kyung Hee Kim on 'The Creativity Crisis'
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The initial spark that set me off thinking that I needed to write a book about imagination was reading a study by a professor at College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, whose name is Kyung Hee Kim, known as ‘K’ to her friends (because they kept getting her full name wrong). K is originally from Korea, and came to the US in 2000. She already had a Masters and a PhD from her time in Korea, but when she came to the US she did a second PhD under the supervision of Dr Ellis Paul Torrance, known as the ‘Father of Creativity’. Torrance created the famous Torrance Test for Creative Thinking, known as ‘the gold standard of creativity testing’. He passed away in 2003, but K has since continued her research into creativity.
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The initial spark that set me off thinking that I needed to write a book about imagination was reading a study by a professor at College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, whose name is Kyung Hee Kim, known as ‘K’ to her friends (because they kept getting her full name wrong). K is originally from Korea, and came to the US in 2000. She already had a Masters and a PhD from her time in Korea, but when she came to the US she did a second PhD under the supervision of Dr Ellis Paul Torrance, known as the ‘Father of Creativity’. Torrance created the famous Torrance Test for Creative Thinking, known as ‘the gold standard of creativity testing’. He passed away in 2003, but K has since continued her research into creativity.
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