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Understanding Children’s Creative Thought and Expression

Understanding Children’s Creative Thought and Expression. ECEC 3214 Lyn Steed. What are the Arts?. Dance: body awareness, fundamentals of movement, creative expression, multisensory integration Drama: creative dramatics, pantomime, improvisation, characterization, play production

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Understanding Children’s Creative Thought and Expression

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  1. Understanding Children’s Creative Thought and Expression ECEC 3214 Lyn Steed

  2. What are the Arts? • Dance: body awareness, fundamentals of movement, creative expression, multisensory integration • Drama: creative dramatics, pantomime, improvisation, characterization, play production • Music: sound, pitch, rhythm, singing, playing instruments, playing musical games, listening, creative movement. • Visual Arts; self-expression, visual and tactile art, print and craft media, analysis, and interpretation.

  3. Why the Arts? • To express themselves • To communicate with others • Enhance intellectual, social and emotional growth. • Allows exploration, experimentation, and self awareness. • To discover our creative potential.

  4. Integrating into the Curriculum • Contributes to improving critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. • Influences and fosters higher order thinking skills (HOTS) • Addresses and encourages multiple intelligences • Broadens and enriches the child’s potential as a productive member of society. • One of best sources for understanding other cultures.

  5. Integrations of the Arts • Key to bringing meaningful, appropriate and relevant global arts experiences to children. • Encourages and promotes acceptance of all people.

  6. Theorists Contributions to the understanding of creative thought Humanistic Theory • Carl Rogers: The creative person in fully functioning. • Abraham Maslow: The creative person is self-actualized. • Rollo May: Being creative is being courageous.

  7. Psychoanalytic Theory • Alfred Adler: Creativity is a way of compensating for perceived physical or psychological inferiority. • Carl Jung: Creative ideas emanate from a deeper source from the collective unconscious. • Jean Piaget:: Creativity is a type of problem solving that depends on the child’s thinking processes/

  8. Contemporary Theory • Howard Gardner: Multiple Intelligences Creativity consists of a constellation of nine different intelligences. Robert Sternberg: Triarchic theory Creativity is a cluster of three types of abilities: synthesizing, analyzing, and practicing. MihalyCslkzentmuihaly: “Flow Theory” Creative individuals acquire competence in a domain of interest and pursue the interest with passion and enjoyment.

  9. Activities • The Dot and activity • Ish and activity • Multiple Intelligences Inventory

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