Καλλιέργεια της δημιουργικότητας μαθητών Δημοτικού μέσω στοχευμένων δραστηριοτήτων εντός του Αναλυτικού Προγράμματος


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creative ability creativity intervention curricula creative teaching practices
Ασημίνα Ιωαννίδου
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7909-856X
Δημήτριος Ζμπάινος
Δημήτριος Καρατζάνος
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3657-0078
Χάρις Σαγιά
Abstract

Over the past decades, creativity has been recognized as a critical factor of worldwide prosperity in various domains such as the economy and technology (Ambrose, 2005‧ Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009‧ Rawat, et al., 2012‧ Sternberg, 2012). Education curricula regulate educational processes and appear to play a very important role in creativity development. Especially in centrally controlled curricula where examinations, accountability and pressure for high achievement prevail creativity does seem to receive the required attention (Beghetto, 2005‧ Craft, 2003‧ Hunter, et al., 2007‧ Jeffrey & Craft, 2004). Although there is a need for such an educational aim in Greek society in recent years, cultivating creativity in Greek schools has not been a primary aim of formal educational policy. Most of the programs for cultivating students’ creativity have been implemented as extracurricular activities and, in general, they appeared to be very effective. Educational programs which are especially designed for creativity training have been characterized not only as extracurricular, but extra-extracurricular. In other words, they are considered less important than the core curriculum subjects and even less necessary than extra-curricular activities such as sports, drama etc. (Beghetto & Plucker, 2006). The real challenge for schools is to enhance creativity through their mainstream formal curriculum. Within this framework, the purpose of the present paper was to investigate whether student creativity can be enhanced through infusion of creative activities in everyday teaching in Greek primary schools which follow a mandatory, centrally imposed curriculum with state-issued handbooks and pre-defined activities. The present paper focuses on studying teachers’ and students’ perceptions of students’ creative abilities, as well as on investigating the possibility of enhancing creativity in the 5th and 6th grade of Greek primary school by using creative writing activities in the subject of Modern Greek Language. In order for this investigation to take place, a quasi—experimental design was employed. The sample consisted of 98 students with a mean age of 11.5 years, divided into two groups, the experimental group where participants received the formal curriculum-based instruction with supplementary infusion of ideas/generation tasks, while the control group participants received formal curriculum-based teaching. Data were collected through: a) a self-reporting questionnaire of student’s and teacher’s perceptions of student’s creative ability and b) a self-made test of creativity consisting of two equivalent forms for pre and post testing. The findings demonstrated that creativity can be improved even in strict centrally controlled curricula and therefore the infusion of creativity tasks in formal curricula could be beneficial to develop creative thinking.

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Ασημίνα Ιωαννίδου, Χαροκόπειο Πανεπιστήμιο
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Δημήτριος Ζμπάινος, Χαροκόπειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Επίκουρος Καθήγητης, Τμήμα Οικονομίας & Βιώσιμης Ανάπτυξης
Δημήτριος Καρατζάνος, Χαροκόπειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Υποψήφιος Διδάκτωρ, Τμήμα Οικονομίας & Βιώσιμης Ανάπτυξης
Χάρις Σαγιά, Χαροκόπειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Υποψήφια Διδάκτωρ, Τμήμα Οικονομίας & Βιώσιμης Ανάπτυξης
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