A workshop experience for the promotion of creativity in primary school children
Abstract
Creativity is the set of capabilities and dispositions that frequently make a person produce creative products. Numerous articles focus on the importance of fostering creativity in educational contexts. In the present study we offer a different approach than the workshop intervention, that included 32 participants, which takes place in an extracurricular activity context, developed in the field of artistic and plastic activities. The participants are diverse in their capacities, ages and origin from a socio-cultural point of view. In addition, and unlike specific intervention programs focused on the development of creativity, this intervention focuses on artistic education that deals with drawing, color, composition and also experiences with other materials. This approach aims to complement more academic approaches and opens new avenues for the development of creativity in all children. The use of the PIC-N, a measure on creative imagination to assess changes in creativity has shown its psychometric adequacy and its utility to reveal improvements in creativity in the participants in The Workshop, in contrast to the control group (n=32).
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