TESTING CONDITIONS AND THE MEASUREMENT PRESCHOOL CHILDREN OF CREATIVE ABILITIES IN LOWER-CLASS

1972 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS V. BUSSE ◽  
PATRICIA BLUM ◽  
MARILYN GUTRIDE
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Testing Conditions ◽  
Creative Abilities

scholarly journals Development of Creative Abilities in Preschool Children Through Play

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 511-520
Author(s):  
A. Garber ◽  
D. Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Creative Abilities

The article is devoted to the study of creativity and creative abilities of preschoolers, which are manifested in various types of activity, including visual. The authors proceed from the positions according to which creativity should be developed in a child from early childhood. The article contains a description of approaches to the development of the creative abilities of preschoolers. It is shown that creativity, divergent thinking abilities are successfully developed with purposeful learning. The description of the study of the effectiveness of play in the development of creative abilities in preschool children is given. The results obtained made it possible to assess the dynamics of the level of development of creative abilities in preschoolers. The main indicators in assessing the success of the test were fluency, flexibility, originality and sophistication. The analysis of drawings was focused on measuring the fluency of thinking by the number of figures completed in the allotted time; flexibility of thinking for a variety of ideas; originality of thinking according to the ability of children to put forward ideas that differ from generally known ones; elaboration according to the number of invented details of each drawing. The dependence of the manifestations of these characteristics by children on the program used by the teacher was found. A higher level of indicators was found in the group that was trained in visual arts through games. The program for the development of creative abilities has shown effectiveness in the development of the creative individuality of preschoolers. The program should become an integral and integral part of the work of preschool educational institutions to develop creative abilities in older preschoolers.

Relationship of Socioeconomic Status and Aggression in Preschool Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Situational Specificity ◽  
Physical Attack ◽  
Relationship Of

Aggression was operationally defined as physical attack, destructiveness, humiliation, threat, and disapproval. The frequency of each behavior displayed by 20 lower-class children and 20 middle-class children in one preschool was recorded by two observers. Analyses of variance indicated no significant effects of social class on any measure. Boys were more disapproving than girls. Results are discussed with reference to Mischel's concept of the situational specificity of behavior.

scholarly journals ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES IN WORKING WITH PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Irina Saraieva
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
The World ◽  
Creative Abilities ◽  
Artistic Image

The development of children’s creativity is an urgent problem of modern pedagogy. The main goal of the educational system is to educate the younger generation of a creative approach to transform the world around them, active and independent thinking, to contribute the achievement of positive changes in the life of society. The formation of the child’s personality serves as a direction of the pedagogical process, which creates favorable emotional conditions for each child, ensures spiritual development and contributes to the formation of artistic and creative abilities of preschool children. The article deals with the problem of the development of children’s creativity by means of musical and theatrical art. The importance of cognition of musical art by preschool children is given. The structure of musicality and the ways of its research are revealed. It is noted that the child develops in the process of musical activity under the influence of the values of musical art, communication between music and adults. It was found that listening to music contributes to the development of artistic taste and the formation of value judgments. Exactly music enables the child to see the world around him in a new way because the diverse content of musical works arouses imagination, develops memory, perception, creativity, and enriches vocabulary. The article presents classification of one of the specific types of children’s activity. It is theatrical activity associated with dramatization and play, contains a creative principle and is a kind of artistic activity. Theatrical activity reveals the creative potential of the child, fosters a creative personality, teaches the child to notice interesting ideas in the world around him and to impersonate them, to create his own artistic image. It is noted that theatrical-play activity contributes to the child’s study of human feelings, fosters will, develops dreams, ideas, initiative of speech, creates a positive attitude, relieves stress, teaches how to solve conflict situations due to play. These types of art education’s activities in preschool age form the personality of the child, develop his creative abilities, direct the child’s manifestations to evaluative and control actions intuitively.

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