Efectos del juego en la creatividad infantil: Impacto de un programa de juego cooperativo-creativo para niños de 10 a 12 años

Abstract

This work presents the assessment results of a play program designed for stimulating creativity in children. The design used was quasi-experimental pretest-interventionpost-test with control group. The sample used included 86 children aged 10 and 11 years, 54 experimental and 32 control, distributed in four groups. Before and after the program, four assessment instruments were administered: 7 verbal and figural tasks from Torrance's, the direct judgement by experts who assessed a creative product, a creative personality scale, and a sociometric questionnaire. The program consisted of a weekly two-hour intervention session throughout the school year. The program's activities were intended to stimulate verbal, graphic-figural, constructive and dramatic creativity. Results of the analyses of variance suggest a positive effect of the intervention, as the experimental subjects significantly increased their: 1) verbal creativity (originality); 2) graphic-figural creativity (resistance to premature closure, originality, elaboration, creative performance); 3) various behaviours and traits of creative personality, and 4) a rise in the number of classmates considered as creative.