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This article analyses qualitative interviews taken of students, teachers and parents of gifted students on the question of creativity. It integrates these answers into the already existing research and definitions of creativity in the literature. Regarding the participants, a total of twenty-four people took part in this research, being eight students, eight family members and eight teachers who answered an individual and recorded interview which was fully transcribed. For the discussion of the data, this research relied on the theories of Lev Vygotsky and Rudolf Steiner. Like Vygotsky, Rudolf Steiner (2000a, b) considers creativity an important attribute of the human being, part of its own structure and function of consciousness, enabling the capacity of invention, imagination and creation for the integral development of each person. For the participants of this research, the definition of creativity considers multiple forms of its expression. The participants’ understanding of the phenomenon of creativity comes close to that of specialists from Brazil and the world, who generally define this attribute linked to innovation, invention, different learning strategies, to go beyond the standard, to express oneself with freedom and creative capacity. |
