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CREATIVITY

CREATIVITY. Helping children to develop creativity. Definitions of Creativity. “Creativity is the process of individual experience which enhances self. It’s the expression of one’s uniqueness”. Michael Andrews

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CREATIVITY

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  1. CREATIVITY Helping children to develop creativity

  2. Definitions of Creativity • “Creativity is the process of individual experience which enhances self. It’s the expression of one’s uniqueness”. Michael Andrews • “The creative person is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, crazier and saner, than the average”. Frank Barron

  3. Definitions of Creativity • “Creative learners learn by questioning, inquiring, searching, manipulating, even playing around, but always trying to find the truth”. J.P. Guilford • Creativity is an instinct which ALL PEOPLE POSSESS, an instinct with which we are born. Creativity, the ability to explore and investigate, belongs to one’s basic drives, a drive without which man could not exist. Viktor Lowenfeld

  4. ONE FROM TWO • 1. Write down something that is battery operated: ______________ • 2. Write down a kitchen item: ____________ • 3. Force fit the two items to make one item and add some wheels. Draw a picture and name your new invention.

  5. HIGH: Sensory awareness Aesthetic sensitivity, sense of beauty Openness to total sensing (synaesthesia) Subjective reality Imagination, uses imagery C.B. Bruch, 1981 UG LOW: Atrophy of sensory awareness concrete, functional Closedness, or minimal, single sense awareness Objective reality Absence of, or limited fantasy, imagery Creative CharacteristicsSENSORY AWARENESS

  6. HIGH: Assertive, influence others Independent Non-conforming Sense of creative (self) destiny (masculine) LOW: Passive, fears expression of aggression Dependent Conforming Gregarious, seeks socialization, prefers group problem solving Low self-concept as creative Creative CharacteristicsINDEPENDENCE

  7. HIGH: Sensitivity to problems, gaps Risks new experiences Tolerance for ambiguity, less structured Tolerance for disorder flexible LOW: Traditional; prefers status quo Prefers known; avoids, fears unknown Prefers structure; seeks early closure Requires order, balance, symmetry; sequential, linear, not holistic Rigid; stereotyped Creative CharacteristicsCOGNITIVE OPENNESS

  8. The Right Answer Is it A, B, C, D, or E?

  9. Eight Basic Characteristics of Creativity (LOWENFELD) • Sensitivity – experience and express • Fluency – verbal and non-verbal • Flexibility – adjust quickly and change rapidly • Originality – new and novel ideas • Redefinition/reorganization – rearrange, shift, known to unknown • Abstraction – analyze parts, see relationships • Synthesizing – combine into a new whole • Organization – put parts together

  10. Around the Circle useful heavy potable durable yellow expensive small mobile elastic round valuable short

  11. QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?

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