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Trotman, Dave – Pastoral Care in Education, 2019
In this paper, the author considers the contribution of creativity to pastoral care in education. Since its advent in English schools in the early 1970s, pastoral care has placed the affective realm and individual enrichment centre stage in both its curriculum aims and teaching approaches. These principles have, however, had much to contend with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spiritual Development, Creativity, Creative Activities
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Sears, Emilie – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2012
It is important to find the means by which struggling writers can find success in the English Language Arts. For students struggling with reading and writing, the visual arts may be a way of accessing and expressing their ideas and ultimately opening up a world of creative possibilities. This article explores drawing and painting as a pre-writing…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Poetry, Creative Writing
Kubicek, Stephanie J. – 1972
This study designed an instrument which would illuminate that atmosphere which is most favorable to the creative process. Analysis of classroom verbal interaction was executed from tape recordings of 44 science sessions, representing 11 fifth grade science classes from five widely separated and diversified schools in the Houston area. A 42-item…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Thinking
Pace, Rosalind; Simon, Marcia – Teachers and Writers, 1992
Describes Image-Making, a workshop in creative bookmaking based on a series of simple, carefully structured, parallel verbal and visual activities. Explains how each teacher and student designed and created an individual book (of his or her own poems and visual images) and a large communal book. (MG)
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creativity
Gamble, Teri Kwal; Gamble, Michael Wesley – Speech Teacher, 1973
Descriptors: Children, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Dramatics
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Stinson, Susan Warshaw – Young Children, 1977
A discussion of ways an adult can encourage and participate in a child's self-expression through movement and dance. (BD)
Descriptors: Body Image, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression
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Woodruff, Judith – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1985
Suggestions for teaching improvisational dance in a nonthreatening way are offered. (DF)
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Dance, Dance Education
Dellas, Marie – 1971
The purpose of this study was to determine whether creativity could be facilitated by a training method based on a salient characteristic of the creative individual, namely, his ability to synthesize elements from two disparate psychological entities: (1) visual experiences; and (2) emotional states. A four-session training program is described in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Creative Activities, Creative Development
Wooten, Vida Jo – Texas Outlook, 1968
Children will enjoy creative writing in the primary grades if they are given inspiration, time to write, and the opportunity to share their work with classmates. A second-grade class began a creative writing project by listening to poetry and selecting poems to memorize and recite. This stimulated and encouraged them to evaluate and to write…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Teaching
Docherty, David – 1975
This text presents a creative, child-centered approach to the teaching of dance in the elementary school based on the theories and methods of Rudolf Laban and Joyce Boorman. The content area of dance is briefly described so that the practical experiences presented later in the text can be viewed in perspective. Dance experiences are presented that…
Descriptors: Body Image, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression
Myers, Carol S. – Camping Magazine, 1987
A study of 74 female campers aged 10-13, primarily from middle to upper income families, determined if creativity of campers changed during a seven-week residential summer camp. Findings indicated camp environment and counselor abilities nurtured creativity. Ten ways camp directors can establish a camping environment to support creative growth…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Camping, Child Development, Counselor Characteristics
Honig, Alice Sterling – 2000
This paper discusses creativity in young children and what teachers can do to support and promote it. Topics addressed in the paper include: (1) teacher interest in promoting creativity; (2) defining creativity; (3) creativity in the socioemotional domain; (4) the relationship between creativity and empathy for others; (4) bibliotherapy; (5)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Activities, Creative Art, Creative Development