2020
DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2020.1813122
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Children’s creative thinking abilities and social orientations in Finnish early childhood education and care

Abstract: The study presented in this article is part of a larger study called Progressive Feedback (blogs.helsinki.fi/orientate), which is an early childhood education and care (ECEC) research and development project. The aim of this article is to find out (a) how childreńs tested creative thinking abilities, fluency, originality and imagination correlated with childreńs social orientations in kindergarten and (b) how childreńs participative orientations occur in relation with the teacher and peers. The data consist of… Show more

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“…For this reason, learning efforts are needed that can encourage the emergence of creative thinking. Creative learning is a learning process that requires teachers to be able to motivate and bring out students' creativity during learning, using several methods and varied strategies, such as group work, role playing, and problem solving [50]. Creative learning requires teachers to stimulate students' creativity, both in developing thinking skills and in taking action [51].…”
Section: Creative Thinking Abilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For this reason, learning efforts are needed that can encourage the emergence of creative thinking. Creative learning is a learning process that requires teachers to be able to motivate and bring out students' creativity during learning, using several methods and varied strategies, such as group work, role playing, and problem solving [50]. Creative learning requires teachers to stimulate students' creativity, both in developing thinking skills and in taking action [51].…”
Section: Creative Thinking Abilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, the overall images of the new children's bins could stimulate the children to be interested in applying the bins suitably with the good potential for generating arousing behavior (Wiley, A. N., 2014). Therefore, this assisted in gaining the satisfactory behavior for children by dumping the litter appropriately (Bean, J., 2015;Nikkola, T., et al, 2020;Boltabayevich, B. B.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This can be seen when the child moves his head to the right and left; the child can align with body movements. These two movements can develop body alignment and visual acuity so that they can build different thinking skills which are important strategies in adjusting to new circumstances (Nikkola et al, 2020). Divergent thinking can be described as the process of retrieving existing knowledge and associating and combining unrelated knowledge in new and meaningful ways (Marron & Faust, 2018).…”
Section: Development Of Children's Creativitymentioning
confidence: 99%