From
Human Motivation, 3rd ed., by Robert E. Franken:
- Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others. (page 396)
- Three reasons why people are motivated to be creative:
- need for novel, varied, and complex stimulation
- need to communicate ideas and values
- need to solve problems (page 396)
- In order to be creative, you need to be able to view things in new ways or from a different perspective. Among other things, you need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives. Tests of creativity measure not only the number of alternatives that people can generate but the uniqueness of those alternatives. the ability to generate alternatives or to see things uniquely does not occur by change; it is linked to other, more fundamental qualities of thinking, such as flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity or unpredictability, and the enjoyment of things heretofore unknown. (page 394)
(http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/creativity/define.htm)
Whitney, I was just thinking about your post on Creativity. How many people could apply this too four and five year old's? Imagine a child is trying to draw a picture of a tree and he or she did not know how to start the trunk. What words do you use to stimulate his or her mind to actually put something done on that paper? It is amazing how many different answers you get.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how many different answers you would get. I think that is the point I was trying to make by adding this piece to my posts. That 3 and 4 year olds are at that point in their lives when they can come up with new, original ideas without even having to struggle at it. As we get older we struggle to come up with creative solutions to our everyday problems. Young children could be given pictures of trees, asking them to draw the trunk in the air before putting it down on paper, and letting them know that their tree trunk is perfect, however it turns out. These are all ways we can foster creativity in students and not put them in a box and stunt their creative minds. Thanks Wanda for your input! It really made me reread the piece I added. :)
ReplyDeleteHello Whitney,
ReplyDeleteYour blog page looks amazing! I love all of the bright colors and the animation. It all looks great! Your youtube uploads are excellent and fun to watch, you did a wonderful job on your blog.
Alice Jones
Group 1
www.myvisionisclear.wordpress.com
Thanks Alice!
ReplyDelete