Creativity

Creativity

by: shellabell - 31-01-07 19:21

Hiya,

Im currently completing my 3rd year of an education degree. Dont know if this is any good for your dissertation but one of my tutors has written a paper on what creativity isnt, a sort of opposite look at creativity. It might give you an alternative argument.

The paper is available from www.blackwell-synergy.com I think you have to pay here but if you are at uni and have access to journals, or journal wabsites you could look up the British Journal of Educational Studies. The author name is Dr Howard Gibson

Hope this helps

Shelly

by: joshuajones

Hi catpuss

creativity to me (and this is a personal interpretation) means the ability to express ones thoughts, emotions and imagination in a way that the individual wants to. There is no right or wrong way to express these things. Creativity is about being able to use your body, materials, resources in any way that you see fit and produce anything that you want at the end of it. We tend to get caught up in creativity producing something that we recognise. ie a painting of a daffodil should look like a daffodil to everyone that sees it. But we don't all see things in the same way, how one person perceives a daffodil to look may not be the same as another person. To help children develop their own creativity we need to give them the resources and materials to experiment with without a directional approach. Music and movement should be about the child's interpretation of the music, the mood, the emotion, what they do is not wrong for them, though it may be for you. Creativity is about the process and not the end result. Experimentation, personal interpretation, thinking for yourself is creativity, not mass produced cards, pictures, movements etc. Maybe whacky, but hope it helps.

Creativity - 07-02-07 14:17

by: catpass

Thanks this will be really useful to look at

Creativity - 09-02-07 22:17

by: sallyQ

Hi
I work in a pre-school and have a long carrer working with pre-school aged children. To me creativity is allowing the children the time, space and resourses to create as they wish. By providing a variety of open ended resourses and adult scaffolding as support there are no limits to what children can create. It is important to remember that with children the doing is as important as the end product. Practitioners are more enlightened nowadays and hopefully the days when children were presented with a template and told exactly what to do with it are becoming fewer.