Summary
Contents
Subject index
Practitioners' Experiences of Promoting Children's Creative Thinking
Practitioners' Experiences of Promoting Children's Creative Thinking
This chapter focuses on:
- The challenges in everyday practice that practitioners face in promoting children's creative thinking;
- The attributes that practitioners bring to their practice that are likely to play a significant role in promoting children's creative thinking;
- The implications of these challenges and attributes for policy, professional development, and research.
The question of how practitioners can best promote children's creative thinking has attracted much attention from political, practical and research perspectives, as we have seen. A proliferation of literature provides practical tips and advice to practitioners on how to enhance children's creativity (e.g. Connors, 2010). As Sternberg (2008) suggests, we want children (and adults) to exercise ‘the creative skills used to generate excellent ideas, the ...
- Loading...