scholarly journals The Crossroad of Technology: Does IBW Develops The Creativity Of Elementary School Students?

Pedagogika ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-100
Author(s):  
Palmira Pečiuliauskienė ◽  
Agnė Saylik

The article discusses the possibilities of the development of creative writing skills of primary school pupils while using interactive whiteboard. Creative writing skills are described with respect to the features of creative thinking: anticipation of the title of narrative corresponding to the essence of the story (originality); disclosure of the topic of narrative according to the number of statements described (elaboration); logic and sequence of narrative (flexibility); structure of narrative and anticipation of its main parts (fluency). The problem of the research is to determine how application of interactive whiteboard in educational practice effects creative writing skills of primary school pupils. The object of the research is the development of creative writing skills of primary school pupils while using interactive whiteboard. The research aims at evaluating the influence of the use of interactive whiteboard as an additional learning tool to the improvement of creative writing skills of primary school pupils. The study conducted by authors during Lithuanian language lessons in primary grades showed that interactive whiteboard can have a positive effect on pupils’ creative writing skills if it is used as addition rather than an alternative tool. This was ensured by authors’ chosen methods of teaching narrative writing: interactive whiteboard was used as a traditional board during the first three lessons while the forth lesson was dedicated to interactive teaching with the full use of interactive whiteboard and its possibilities. Results show that educational effectiveness of interactive whiteboard to pupils’ creative writing skills depends on the appropriate use of its complex components in educational practice.

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-249
Author(s):  
Janina Uszyńska-Jarmoc ◽  
Beata Kunat

AbstractThe current research aims to analyse ways of conceptualising the term creativity with the help of drawings, as a form of cognitive rendering by primary school students, pedagogy students and primary school teachers. The research seeks to find answers to three questions: What common notions of creativity are held by both primary school pupils and teachers and pedagogy students? Are there any differences in the understanding of this term among these groups of people? How far is the implicit, personal understanding of creativity in line with the scientific notion of this term? The visual ethnography method was applied in the study. Qualitative visual data (177 drawings of pupils, students and teachers) were used as the main source of data for analysis in addition to verbal data (written descriptions by the participants). Empirical data were analysed from the perspective of both an elitist and egalitarian approach to creativity, and using various ways to define creativity, as well as selected understandings of the term. Analysis of the qualitative data, demonstrated that pupils, students and teachers are able to treat creativity holistically and systematically, although they tend to associate creativity with the person who is the creator or with a broadly understood product, rather than the process or external circumstances that support creative activity. The research suggests that pupils’ definitions of creativity focus around four aspects of meaning: 1) creativity as self-expression; 2) creating new things; 3) ability to utilise the internal resources of imagination and creative thinking outside the system; 4) participation in solving everyday problems. Furthermore, it is possible to say that the knowledge of teachers in this matter is more consistent (cultural knowledge) and that of students is more personal (atypical, original, referring to a larger number of different problems and themes).


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara V. Artemeva ◽  
Oleg I. Pechnikov

The purpose of the article is to determine the importance of teaching creative writing to younger schoolchildren. The urgency of the problem of teaching creative writing in the native Chuvash language is due to the need for the formation of text competencies in younger schoolchildren, the lack of formation of their native writing skills, especially creative writing. Material and methods of research. The main research methods were the study of literature, the analysis of teachers 'difficulties and errors in the students' works. A brief history of the issue is considered: the ideas of developing creative writing skills among foreign researchers: the most successful start of learning creative writing is 4-5 years old (M. Montessori), the need to believe in the creative abilities of a child (S. Frenet); leading domestic teachers: every child is born a potential writer (L. N. Tolstoy), the experiments of V. A. Sukhomlinsky and Sh. Amonashvili on composing fairy tales and stories by students, I. Ya. Yakovleva on teaching creative writing to students of the Chuvash Simbirsk school; the main provisions of the Chuvash linguodidacts: the support of written creativity on the development of oral speech (M. Ya. Sirotkin), on the observation of objects, phenomena (F. T. Timofeev), the need to study the structure and content of the text from the first grade (V. E. Efimov, I. V. Drozdov, L. P. Sergeev), the need to work on composing miniature texts in the native language lessons (D. S. Filippova). The main problems in teaching creative writing in the Chuvash primary school are highlighted. The assumption is made about the effectiveness of planning within the hours allocated to the native language, creative writing lessons. The results of the study. The purpose and tasks, features of the organization of creative writing lessons in grades 2-4 of Chuvash schools are described: it is recommended to conduct one lesson every two weeks, the main goal is the formation of a comprehensively developed language personality. The main directions, methods and forms of work: work on the content, structure of the text; on language tools, editing. It is concluded that the idea and provisions of the methods are accepted by teachers, and the lessons of creative writing are introduced into the practice of the Chuvash primary school.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 203-225
Author(s):  
امانی ابراهیم خطاب عبد الواحد ◽  
سهیر ابراهیم محمد سلیم ◽  
منال فاروق محمد

Psihologija ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slavica Maksic ◽  
Lazar Tenjovic

The incentive for studying the linkage between interests and creativity is based on the results of biographical studies that indicate that highly creative individuals had wider and more intensive interests than their peers already in the period of childhood. In the process of defining interests, the child tests his/her capacities and discovers the domain in which he/she will later provide creative contributions. The subject of this paper is the linkage between interests of primary school pupils and their verbal fluency, as basic characteristic of creative thinking. It was determined that the wideness of the span of interests is positively correlated with verbal fluency, whereby the correlation between interests and verbal fluency is somewhat higher for boys (r= 0.33, p = .007) than for girls (r = 0.24, p = .030). Also, the intensity of scientific interest of boys and girls is significantly correlated with their verbal fluency (for boys: = 0.39; for girls: r=0.35). But, when school achievement is statistically controlled, the correlation between the intensity of scientific interests and verbal fluency remains significant for boys, while it disappears for girls. It was concluded that the results confirmed the theoretical assumptions about the importance of interest in creativity and pointed out to the need for paying attention to the effect of gender. Besides the span and intensity of interests, the domain in which interests are manifested and creativity is measured is also important for the linkage with creativity.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inzahuli Samuel Majere Majere ◽  
Elizabeth Role ◽  
Lazarus Ndiku Makewa

This study sought to determine disparities and associated factors in students’ performance in Physics and Chemistry at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) ex- amination in Nandi North District. The research objectives included determining differences in students’ performance at KCSE in Physics and Chemistry, self-concept (perception) of, attitude toward, and perception of the usefulness of Physics and Chemistry as subjects. Students were classified accord- ing to gender, using a causal-comparative design. Majority of the students aged between 15 and 19 years. Three ques- tionnaires were administered to the form four students, and KCSE results for the years 2000 – 2004 were obtained from the District Education Office. These were analyzed using de- scriptive and inferential statistics. We concluded that boys reflected better academic achievement as compared to the girls in both physics and chemistry. The boys and girls had comparable self-concept in physics. The girls had a higher self-concept in chemistry than the boys. This may suggest that self-concept does not influence performance in chemistry since boys still out-performed the girls in spite of the girls’ higher self-concept. With regard to attitude towards chemistry and physics, the boys and girls had the same attitude, mixed and single-sex school students had comparable attitude to- wards physics and chemistry. An intervention regarding the level of preparedness of primary school pupils in dealing with the challenges of learning Physics and Chemistry at sec- ondary is recommended.


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