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Creativity in Hong Kong Classrooms: Transition from a Seriously Formal Pedagogy to Informally Playful Learning.
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In this article, the authors provide evidence that creativity can be nurtured as abilities and skills both in the general domain as well as in specific domains with methods appropriate to the holistic development of young learners.Abstract:
This article provides research evidence that creativity can be nurtured as abilities and skills both in the general domain as well as in specific domains with methods appropriate to the holistic development of young learners. It reports upon two empirical studies on the enhancement of creativity in children and young people, and connects to teachers’ creative self-efficacy. The studies focus upon infusing creative arts in early childhood curriculum, and employing creative drama in subjects such as Chinese, English and General Studies. Playfulness is an important feature in these innovative pedagogies and teachers' use of creative drama techniques is also strengthened. The research evidence lends support to the hypothesis that arts-enriched learning elements and playfulness in the classroom environment can enhance individuals’ creative performance. The implications and limitations for implementing such playful learning and creativity in education are discussed.read more
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Factors affecting creativity in information system development: Insights from a decomposition and PLS-MGA
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TL;DR: No previous study has investigated factors influencing the creativity of information system (IS) students and practitioners by using a decomposed and second-order research model, so this paper, based on Amabile’s creativity theory, attempts to elucidate the factors influencing IS students’ and practitioners’ creativity.
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Teacher-directed versus child-centred: the challenge of promoting creativity in Chinese preschool classrooms
TL;DR: This article explored and analyzed the characteristic features of creative practice and its pedagogic practices in a Chinese context, finding that a balance between teacher-directed and child-centred was found to be more effective in the Chinese classroom.
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An examination of kindergarten teachers’ beliefs about creative pedagogy and their perceived implementation in teaching practices
Zhaocun Li,Li Li +1 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors found that teachers overall held positive attitudes towards the importance of four dimensions of creative pedagogy (namely possibility thinking, interpersonal exchange, self-initiated pursuit and teacher-oriented pursuit).
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The creative environment: teachers’ perceptions, self-efficacy, and teaching experience for fostering children’s creativity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the availability of a creative environment within regular schools between the academic year 2009/2010 and 2015/2016 by measuring teachers' perceptio-graphs.
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Improving elementary school students’ creativity and writing skills through digital comics
TL;DR: In this paper, a quasi-experimental study was conducted to develop students' creativity and writing skills through digital comics and the results showed that digital comics significantly improved the creativity of the experimental group compared to the control group.
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Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth
TL;DR: Singer, Golinkoff, and Hirsh-Pasek as discussed by the authors argue that play provides children with the opportunity to maximize their attention spans, learn to get along with peers, cultivate their creativity, work through their emotions and gain the academic skills that are the foundation for later learning.
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Creativity Across the Primary Curriculum: Framing and Developing Practice
TL;DR: In this article, an inspirational look at how to foster children's creativity as well as following the guidelines in the National Curriculum is presented, which will ring bells with educators who value teaching within given guidelines but who also wish to teach with originality and scope.
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Creative teachers and creative teaching strategies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the factors that influence creative teaching and found out what effective strategies are used by three award-winning teachers in the learning area of Integrated Activities, including persistence, willingness to develop, acceptance of new experiences, self-confidence, sense of humour, curiosity, depth of ideas, imagination, etc.
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Pretend play, creativity, and emotion regulation in children.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined relationships among pretend play, creativity, emotion regulation, and executive functioning in children and found that play significantly related to creativity as measured by divergent thinking and storytelling, and related to emotion regulation.