Designing movement activities to develop children's creativity in early childhood education

Designing movement activities to develop children's creativity in early childhood education

• Cheung, Rebecca Hun Ping Dept of Early Childhood Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Early Child Development and Care, 180(3), 377-385, 2010

Routledge

2010

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FA General Teaching Strategies, Different Instructional Methods
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FC Critical Thinking, Learning Techniques, Time
• C Psychology & Learning
  • CA Perception & Motor Abilities

Kindergarten Early Childhood Education -- Activity Programs Creative Thinking in Children Child Psychology Activity Programs in EducationCreative Development Creative Movement Early Childhood

• Hong Kong
• China

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

This article describes the introduction of creative movement activity in three Hong Kong kindergartens to promote children's creativity. The purposes of the study were to examine the effectiveness of creative movement activity in promoting children's creativity and teachers' perceptions of the activities. The movement activities were designed based on four aspects: (1) introduce the theme; (2) acquire and explore of movement skills; (3) creation and expression; and (4) performance and appreciation. The participants were 12 children and three class teachers. Torrance's test of creative thinking including fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration was employed to measure children's creativity and teachers' perceptions of creative movement activity provided insights into factors that influenced children's creativity. Results showed that children's movement responses became more varied and always gave surprise to the teachers but limited knowledge, skills and experiences of teachers seemed to be a challenge of Hong Kong kindergarten teachers to foster children's creativity.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 03004430

• 10.1080/03004430801931196

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/9a91661b

2010-12-24