The golden thread: educator connectivity as a central pillar in the development of creativity through childhood education. An Irish life history study

Autor: Dee O'Connor
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Education 3-13. 44:671-681
ISSN: 1475-7575
0300-4279
DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2014.999343
Popis: This paper presents the narratives of five creative Irish Adults who contributed to the study by sharing their childhood education experiences. The five participants are all of different ages and occupations. All identify themselves as highly creative people and all worked with me over the course of this study to identify how this creativity developed within their engagement with the Irish childhood education system. All excelled with higher education and they share a high degree of success within their careers. Between them, they express their creativity across five key genres. These are: Science, Engineering, The Arts, Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship. Well-developed themes were analysed to identify interrelationships which formed a theoretical framework of core concepts that demonstrate what holds great importance in the lives of these participants for the development of their creativity during childhood education in Ireland. A clear theme of this study was that of connectivity. Connections...
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