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Poddiakov, Nikolay – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2011
This article is about experimentation in both practical and mental activity and uses data from a series of studies with preschool children. The article focuses on personal experimentation, which is aimed at discovering relations, rather than the more utilitarian experimentation that is aimed at solving practical tasks. Personal experimentation…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Familiarity, Heuristics, Kinetics
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Mellou, Eleni – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Discusses the reciprocal, interactionist activity of creativity. Suggests an explanation of how specific characteristics of personality, cognitive style, and situation develop creativity. Notes that these factors are interrelated--none is sufficient for creativity by itself--and that creativity can be explained only by a model that encompasses all…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Creative Development, Creative Thinking