Promoting Creativity in Young Children [microform] / Alice Sterling Honig
- Bib ID:
- 5670973
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Honig, Alice Sterling
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED442548
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2000
- 56 p.
- Summary:
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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) learning the secrets of promoting divergent thinking; (6) encouraging child cooperation to create a climate for creativity; (7) sharpening children's verbal tools; (8) humor to promote divergent thinking; (9) enlisting curricular components to engage children's creativity (such as music, art work, dance, drama, puppetry, and movement); (10) creating classroom time for imagination games; (11) how a strong knowledge base undergirds creativity; (12) how creative scenarios may serve children's deeper psychological needs; (13) imaginary parties to create a happy indoor climate during severe winters; (14) promoting poetry to prominence in the classroom; (15) celebrating creative writing; (16) classroom arrangements that enhance child creativity (such as dramatic play spaces); (17) power relations in the classroom that affect creativity; (18) other experiential domains where teachers can encourage creativity (including collections); (19) decreasing "consumer gimmees" through emphasis on creativity; (20) partnering with parents to enrich creativity in children's lives; (21) the connections between creativity and mental health in early childhood; (22) the directions of creativity research, practice, and policy in the next decade; and (23) promoting creativity in society (including gender and creativity, the importance of fairy tales, and creative activities as buffers against stress). (Contains 66 references.) (EV)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Advisors for Scholastic, Inc. (New York, NY, May 19, 2000).
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- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- ERIC
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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