Journal Articles
Designing movement activities to develop children's creativity in early childhood education
- Designing movement activities to develop children's creativity in early childhood education
- Early Child Development and Care, 180(3), 377-385, 2010
- Routledge
- 2010
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- Hong Kong
- China
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- 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. [Copyright of Early Child Development and Care is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03004430801931196]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 03004430
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/9a91661b
- 2010-12-24
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