Nature Creativity in Children and Promote Children

Running head: NURTURE CREATIVITY IN CHILDREN AND PROMOTE CHILDREN’S
AGENCY
Nurture Creativity in Children and Promote Children’s Agency
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Answer 1
Skills for engaging
creatively
Descriptor
Fluency The ability to think of many ideas related to a particular topic.
Flexibility The ability to find many different and challenging alternatives to a
problem and to bring order out of disorganisation.
Originality The ability to produce something (including thoughts) that is unique.
Elaboration The ability to think about and analyse a problem in many different
ways.
Curiosity Having an innate sense of wonder.
Complexity The ability to take an idea and make it more interesting or complex.
Risk taking The willingness to try new approaches and learn from failures.
Imagination The ability to go beyond the boundaries of reality.
Answer 2
The six thinking dispositions used to promote children’s thinking and creativity:
 Social/emotional development helps the children in expressing their viewpoints
confidently.
 Motivations as well as dispositions help the children to solve a problem adequately
and think about it.
 Cognitive development helps the children to develop their capacity to classify as well
as sort at concrete level.
 Linguistic development helps the children acquire linguistic competence. It helps
them explain why they have done certain things in that particular way. In addition to

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this, it helps them in discussing their action plans and also giving answers to the open
ended questions.
 Creative development shows the children the degree of imagination as well as flair in
what they perform.
 Reflective responses motivate the children to ask questions as well as express their
desires of knowing more. Furthermore, it helps the children to be self critical to some
extent, accept others’ suggestions and tackle ambiguity as well as being open to take
challenges.
Answer 3
There are many ways how children develop and express their creativity. Majority of
the theorists have viewed young children as highly creative. They have a natural tendency of
fantasizing, explore as well as experiment their environment. Most importantly, this high
creativity level may not be maintained throughout their childhood to adulthood. Most of the
writers agree that education highly influence creativity. However, the attributes which are
required by the children to express their creativity are discussed here. Firstly, the creative
environment is considered to be one of the most crucial elements which influence children to
express their creativity on the long run. Secondly, the creative programs help in enhancing or
improving the children’s creative skill set. This can be done through specific teaching
procedure including the art based ones. Thirdly, creative teachers as well as creative thinking
are the key attributes which help in fostering the creativity into the younger children.
Teachers must play a vital role in providing the kids with optimum balance between the
freedom and structure of expression.

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Answer 4
Three factors that can be used to nurture creativity in an educational setting are
discussed as follows;
 Allowing time for the young children to encourage efforts and be creative, which can
be extended over weeks or days. They must receive education on several techniques
while using equipments and materials.
 Planning as well as creating opportunities for the children to help them collaborate
with each other creatively. In addition to this, the young children must be involved
into critically reflecting as well as solving real life problems. They must be
encouraged and motivated to raise their issues, without any fear. This must be done on
an individual basis. Furthermore, support from the parents is immensely important,
which must be taken into consideration.
 Moreover, the teachers of the educational centers must display the works as well as
achievements of the children in a very creative, yet meaningful manner. In addition to
this, designing a flexible framework will help in responding to the interests and
likings of the children, when they arise.
Answer 5
The factors which may stifle or limit creativity in the early childhood settings are
discussed as follows;
 Adults as well as educators can limit the creativity of the children by discouraging
their level of fantasy. It must be kept in mind that children’s minds are the storehouse
of creativity. Therefore, the young children must be encouraged as well as motivated
to think of new ideas and create their own opinions.