Recent Publications

Recent Publications

The Imaginarium’s work is grounded in scholarship on creativity, wisdom, engagement, higher-order thinking, and educational innovation. Our publications include both conceptual and applied work that informs exhibits, programs, partnerships, and future research development.

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Selected Work

Garemani, M., & Kargaripadar, L.* (2026). Transformational courage and STEM wisdom: A developmental perspective through the ecological systems model. Roeper Review, 48(1), 11–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2025.2593025

Garemani, M., Azhar, M., Florida, N*, Vahedifard, F. (2026). Transformational wisdom for equitable resilience in a changing climate: Applying the Polyhedron Model of Wisdom. In R. J. Sternberg, A. Soleimani Dashtaki (Ed.). Handbook of Transformational Wisdom (pp. xxx-xxx). Palgrave-Macmillan.

Sternberg, R. J., Garemani, M., & Ehsan, H. (2026). Why a Special Issue of Roeper Review on STEM Wisdom? Wisdom is the Cinderella of Both STEM and Gifted Education. Roeper Review, 48(1), 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2025.2593017

Karami, S., Garemani, M., Parra-Martinez, A., Alzoubi, D., Tajik, N. (2026). Imaginarium: Creativity & STEAM Discovery Center fostering transformational wisdom through equitable informal learning in rural Mississippi. In R. J. Sternberg, A. Soleimani Dashtaki (Ed.). Handbook of Transformational Wisdom (pp. xxx-xxx). Palgrave-Macmillan.

Penchala, S.*, Kontham, S. R., Bhattacharjee, P., Karami, S., Ghahremani, M., Amiri Golilarz, N., & Rahimi, S. (2025). Learning in focus: Detecting behavioral and collaborative engagement using vision transformers. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.15782

Mohseni, A., Abedi, A., Faramarzi, S., & Karami, S. (2025). Exploring the Perception of Wisdom among Iranian Gifted School Teachers: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study. Journal of Applied Psychological Research, 16(1), 15-26. 

Karami, S. (2024). Why Transformational Creativity? In: Sternberg, R.J., Karami, S. (eds) Transformational Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51590-3_1 

Sternberg, R.J., Karami, S. (2024). How to transform teaching for creativity programs to teaching for Transformational Creativity. In: Sternberg, R.J., Karami, S. (eds) Transformational Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51590-3_14 

Sternberg, R.J., Karami, S. (Eds). (2024). Transformational Creativity: Learning for a Better Future. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51590-3 

Karami, S., Parra-Martinez, F., Ghahremani, & M., Gentry, M., (2024). Development and Validation of Perception of Wisdom Exploratory Rating Scale (POWER Scale): An Instrument to Examine Teachers’ Perception of Wisdom, Education Sciences, 14(5), 542. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14050542 

Mohseni, A. *, Abedi, A., Faramarzi, S., & Karami, S. (2024). Illuminating wisdom in schools: new insights from Iranian teachers’ perspectives. Gifted and Talented International, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332276.2024.2407601  

Ghahremani, M., Pereira, N., Ozen, Z., & Gentry, M. (2024). A systematic literature review of novice visual representations of design ideas: A Three-Pronged Design Sketching Framework. Roeper Review, 46(3), 202-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2024.2357538

Chowkase, A., Parra Martínez, F. A., Ghahremani, M., Finora, G*., Bernstein, Z.*, & Sternberg, R. J. (2024). Dual-Process model of courage. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1376195