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Fung, Wing Kai; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; He, Mavis Wu-jing – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
This study examined the direct and indirect associations among imaginational over-excitability, cognitive play processes, affective play processes, and parent-reported creative potential of Hong Kong Chinese kindergarten children. Participants were 106 parents of local kindergarten children (43.4% girls, mean age = 60.1 months). Parents reported…
Descriptors: Correlation, Young Children, Kindergarten, Parent Attitudes
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Kelly C. Berthiaume; Selcuk Acar; Denis Dumas – Grantee Submission, 2024
Despite decades of research, the creative process remains to be fully understood, and most theories and empirical evidence focus on adults' creativity. Without understanding children's creative processes, the generalizability of these theories is questionable, which is crucial for teaching, learning, and parenting. However, studying children's…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Üret, Aytül; Ceylan, Remziye – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
In this study, the effect of STEM education on the creativity of 5-year-old children was examined. This article presents the relationship between STEM education and creativity in early years of childhood. The semi-experimental method with pretest-posttest-control group is used to observe the difference of creativity scores between study group and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Creativity, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten
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Austin, Stacie – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2021
The researcher constructed this descriptive case study with the intention of determining second grade educators' perceptions of creativity, and to provide insight into how creativity is nurtured in general education classrooms while identifying barriers to nurturing creativity. Using Eisner's (2017) framework of educational connoisseurship and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Development, Creative Activities, Classroom Techniques
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Louis, Linda – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2013
This article reports on the most recent phase of an ongoing research program that examines the artistic graphic representational behavior and paintings of children between the ages of four and seven. The goal of this research program is to articulate a contemporary account of artistic growth and to illuminate how young children's changing…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Painting (Visual Arts), Creative Development, Child Development
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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
Riley, Jeni, Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2007
This second edition of "Learning in the Early Years 3-7" has been written to help early years practitioners understand and implement the U.K.'s new curriculum guidance document "The Foundation Stage". The author explains how to meet the requirements of the new Foundation Stage document and how these relate to the U.K.'s…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Models, Mathematics Education, Literacy
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Lobo, Ma. Pilar Martin – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2005
Introduction: Identifying talent is the first step in a process that leads to an educational response for students with talent and high ability. Can talent be identified from an early age? Does talent remain naturally throughout the different stages of schooling, or, on the contrary, does it require orientation in order to be developed? The study…
Descriptors: Talent Identification, Academic Ability, Music, Elementary School Students
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Burnard, Pamela; Craft, Anna; Cremin, Teresa; Duffy, Bernadette; Hanson, Ruth; Keene, Jean; Haynes, Lindsay; Burns, Dawn – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2006
Drawing on existing work in the area of creativity and early years education, this paper maps the process of an exploratory study which sought to identify what characterizes "possibility thinking" as an aspect of creativity in young children's learning. With the aim of developing a framework for identifying "possibility…
Descriptors: Creativity, Young Children, Learning, Teacher Researchers