Assessing children’s development.
The approaches and theories of creativity for the well-being of children and young people
Creativity involves being imaginative and original. Creative activities encourage problem-solving, flexibility and imagination. It allows children to try out new ideas. It also promotes social, emotional and intellectual development, and the ability to express own ideas. There are few theories that have said creativity plays a role in leaning and benefits the child.
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner’s theory talked about multiple intelligences which include linguistic, logical, mathematical, musical, spatial, naturalist and bodily – kinaesthetic intelligence. The theory states that all seven intelligences are needed to
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Piaget’s theory is based on stages, whereby each stage represents a qualitatively different type of thinking. Children in stage one cannot think the same as children in stage 2, 3 or 4 etc. He believed a child cannot learn unless they are constantly interacting with their environment, making mistakes and then learning from them.
The Reggio Approach
The Reggio Approach believes that children are driven by curiosity and imagination. An important belief of Reggio Emilia philosophy is that the child is encouraged to develop individual understandings of the world and its objects through active explorations. The Reggio Emilia Approach also emphasises hands-on discovery learning that allows the child to use all their senses and all their languages to learn.
Different types of creative activity and their
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Some children may need help and encouragement to develop their skills in creative activity. It is important to encourage them as it enables them to make decisions by themselves and to be able to make choices. It also allows them to express themselves and think and try new ideas. Creative development has greater impact when its principles are shared and equally valued both in the setting and within the home environment. Being a role model by joining in messy activities with them will encourage them to develop their own creative interests. Some children learn best by observing others and then doing the same. This can benefit the children as they can also build a good relationship with adults and children their age. They also won’t be afraid of trying new things. You can also encourage children by talking to them and asking them questions. This will help their communication skills and encourage their imagination. Also by encouraging them you can observe them and work on the child’s weaknesses. Encouraging creativity in children is to make sure their learning and play involves as many of the senses as possible. It is important to encourage creative activities as a child is more likely to learn and remember more effectively if the learning or play activity involves touch, smell, hearing or tasting, as well as
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Apparently babies, while exploring about themselves, are constantly experimenting with the outside world. Gopnik analyzes her research and comes up with a conclusion: “If we want to encourage learning, innovation and creativity, we should love our young children, take care of them, talk to them, let them play and let them watch what we do as we go about our everyday lives”. In addition, new studies have shown that the best way for a baby to learn is letting them explore on their own. Adam Grant, who makes an excellent point in his article “How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off,” suggests that, even if the parents aren’t “[shoving] their values down their children’s throats,” children are simply held back by a seemly harmless systematic way of education. Grant points out that the “genius” babies, who are taught to achieve great academic standings who are considered talented by the society, tend to end with a “whimper” career. Furthermore, he explains that when children are striving to achieve adoration from their teachers or approval from their parents, they stop being original after figuring out the most rewarded action to proceed whenever they are facing a new challenge. With this in mind, the biggest benefit of being a baby is that they are always going through a first time. The luxury of being inexperienced belongs to the children. Children are naturally growing as individuals that are unique and creative which is why I, as an artist, strive to be a baby. To put it another way, when babies are in a movie theatre (and not crying out loud), their big puffy eyes are quietly observing the new environment — the dimmed light that has the colors they have never seen, the roaring sound that delivers the characters they have never heard, and the striving emotion that
Howard Gardner’s theory contains eight main multiple intelligence. As the years have progressed there have taken one out and is left with the main seven. These seven are: Linguistic, Mathematical, Spatial, bodily, Musical, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal. These are found in everyone; however, each person will excel in one or two. Once teachers can determine what intelligence the students will exceed on and teach to their strengths the student will learn much more.
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This shows how much society has changed since the 1900’s. Modern-day children are worse in almost every aspect of creative thinking when compared to previous generations. Society is hurting children’s imagination by not being supportive of outside time and social connections. With modern electronic devices, kids seldomly need to leave the house in order to be entertained. The lack of play time and social interactions severely hamper the development of children’s creativity. In summary, society is developing into something that lacks encouragement of creativity, and that is a major
Educators produce a wide variety of experiences, perceptions, prospects, learning and abilities to their education (DEEWR, 2009, p. 9). In my career and through my studies, my philosophy and pedagogy have been closely linked with the constructivist theory from Piaget. Being able to focus on a child’s interests and creating learning activities that are implemented as fun is a big part of my motivation as an educator and teacher. The educational environment needs to sustain every single child along with inspiring significant work that can result in more advanced thinking (Evanshen and Faulk, 2011, p. 225). Following Piaget’s ideas while implementing the EYLF has made for a simple straight forward way of supplying quality learning experiences for children from birth to 12 years old and it has helped me widen the scope of each experience to allow for multiple levels of developmental stages. Using a constructivist approach to learning allows for the breaking down of the experience as a whole into smaller parts which brings the focus around to the process of learning (Evanshen and Faulk, 2011, p. 667). Overall I believe Piaget’s Theory to be one of the most important influences in modern teaching, allowing scaffolding of learning in a place that that
There are a whole lot of programs or curriculums out there that try to talk about the environmental and academic needs of children. In this paper, I will try my best to discuss the five components of the Creative Curriculum framework, as well as the philosophies, theories, and research behind its foundation.
NACCCE definition of creativity: ‘Imaginative activity fashioned so as to produce outcomes that are both original and of value’(NACCCE, 1999:94).Creativity can motivate children to learn new information through a creative outlook. One of the biggest issues teachers have is between teaching required content and integrating creativity into the daily sessions. The National Curriculum and state standard often create boundaries towards the teacher’s ability to develop the lesson, as the intention of including creativity sometimes resorts in a teacher centred learning environment. The teacher’s role should be to generate lessons and create activities that encourage students to be more open to their creative side. This is vital as it exposes children with varying learning styles to different ways of learning.
Jean Piaget is a Switzerland psychologist and biologist who understand children’s intellectual development. Piaget is the first to study cognitive development. He developed the four stages of cognitive development: the sensori-motor stage, preoperational stage, the concrete operational and the formal operational stage. Piaget curiosity was how children cogitate and developed. As they get mature and have the experience, children’s will get knowledgeable. He suggested that children develop schemas so they can present the world. Children’s extend their schemas through the operation of accommodation and assimilation.
The main concept of Jean Piaget’s theory is that he believes in children being a scientist by experimenting things and making observations with their senses. This approach emphasizes on how children’s ability can make sense of their immediate everyday surroundings. Piaget also proposed that children perceived to four stages based on maturation and experiences. Piaget’s theory was guided by assumptions of how a learner interacts with their own environment and how they integrate new knowledge and information into existing knowledge. Briefly, he proposed that children are active learners who construct knowledge from their own environment. They learn through assimilation and accommodation in complex cognitive development. Furthermore, interaction with physical and social environments is the key and development occurs in stages. An example of Jean Piaget theory carried out in the classroom is that giving children a great deal of hands-on practice, by using concrete props and visual aids. Taking into consideration and being sensitive to the possibility that
As a child, no matter where you grew up or what race you are, you had fun. Obviously not all of the time, as you have responsibilities at all ages and times of your life, but children still have fun. May it be playing with dolls, joining a club, or playing sports, children find a way to enjoy themselves. As well as any aged human, children are creative. Some children might be more creative than others, but all children have a sense of creativity. Being creative can be a positive or a negative feature of a person, as creativity could cause you to find crafty ways to get around the law, while it is also possible to use your creativity to solve problems in stressful situations that could be potentially life threatening. As a child, you
Anna Quindlen writes about how to foster creativity in children, and by extension adults, by doing nothing and allowing their minds to foster creativity during this time, free time. She expresses her thoughts in “Doing nothing is something” short essay. Quindlen proposes that kids are too busy and do not have enough free time. In this down time or free time they make their own adventures and form their own ideas. She presents the idea that to even start the creative process of creating literature, music, and art one must have free time to let the mind wonder and create.
Piaget’s Cognitive theory represents concepts that children learn from interactions within the world around them. He believed that children think and reason at different stages in their development. His stages of cognitive development outline the importance of the process rather the final product. The main concept of this theory reflects the view th...
The Reggio Emilia approach endorses children’s sensory development by promoting hands-on discovery experiences in the curriculum that are derived from children’s interests (Russell-Bowie, 2012; Twigg & Gravis, 2010). Vecchi (2010) and Mai (2011) believe that by incorporating children’s interests in multi-sensory activities through Creative Arts offers more learning opportunities for children to use all senses and languages to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the world around them. This is evident when children articulate ideas and make meaning by dancing, drawing, role playing, singing and sculpting; meeting the EYLF outcomes 3.2.5 and 5.3.3 (DEEWR, 2009). Furthermore, ACARA (2017f, v.8.3) states that the Australian curriculum builds on the EYLF by engaging students’ minds, bodies and senses in purposeful and creative play throughout each strand of The Arts
The Critique of Piaget's Theories Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980) was a constructivist theorist. He saw children as constructing their own world, playing an active part in their own development. Piaget’s insight opened up a new window into the inner working of the mind and as a result he carried out some remarkable studies on children that had a powerful influence on theories of child thought. This essay is going to explain the main features and principles of the Piagetian theory and then provide criticism against this theory. Cognitive development refers to way in which a person’s style of thinking changes with age.