Primary physical education perspective on creativity: the nature of creativity and creativity fostering classroom environment
| Autor: | Elisavet Konstantinidou, Maria Michalopoulou, Vasilis Grammatikopoulos, Athanasios Gregoriadis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject Perspective (graphical) Creativity Pediatrics Physical education Likert scale Educational research Promotion (rank) Pedagogy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Developmental and Educational Psychology Mathematics education Creativity technique Psychology Curriculum ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS media_common |
| Zdroj: | Early Child Development and Care. 184:766-782 |
| ISSN: | 1476-8275 0300-4430 |
| Popis: | From the beginning of the twenty-first century, many authorities and educational policies had begun to campaign their curricula towards the promotion of creativity. Researchers' interest turned to teachers' perceptions, implicit theories and beliefs about creativity-related issues which reflect and influence their behaviours and actions in classroom settings. Till today, no research recorded physical educators' (PEds) perceptions about creativity- (PAC) related issues, although many EU member states promote creativity in their primary curricula. The PAC questionnaire was developed to explore PEds' perceptions on: (a) the characteristics of creative students, (b) students' creative outcomes, (c) the nature of creativity and (d) the creativity fostering and inhibiting classroom environment. The present paper discusses the findings from the two latter aspects. Although PEds seemed to lean towards the democratic approach of creativity, many of them held contradicting views. Also, they appeared undecided, unaw... |
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