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1. Creativity: Concept, Nature, Process
and techniques of fostering creativity
among children
Presented by-
Anjana Yadav
Smruti Smita Mohanty
Ashutosh Jena
Abhishek Nayan

2. Meaning and concept

3. Are creativity and intelligence same?
 Creativity and intelligence are same.
 Only intelligent people are creative.
 Creativity is limited to highly
educated people.
 Scope of creativity is only in
academics.
 Creativity necessarily results in new
inventions.
 Once a creative, creative for lifetime.
 Creativity and intelligence are not
same but share some co-relation.
 Everybody is creative.
 Creativity is everywhere.
 Creativity does not always result
in new inventions.
 Creativity can increase or
decrease with age.

4. Nature of creativity

5. Factors affecting creativity
Creative product
approach
Creative process
approach
Creative person
approach
Creative
situational
approach or press
4 Ps

6. Creative product approach
Product is assessed physically.
Product should be relevant with current time.
E.g. tape recorder can’t be said creative in
current times
Creative process approach
 How people think.
 Time cannot be fixed for a student for
creativity.
 Ability to think fluently, flexibly, originally
differs from one student to the other.
Factors affecting creativity cont..

7. Factors affecting creativity cont..
Creative person approach
 What helped him/her in being
creative, etc?
 The creativity intelligence co-relation.
Creatives are: dominant, self-
confident, out spoken, demanding, self
centered, verbally fluent.
Creative situational approach or press
 Early sanction to explore the ideas and
universe to make decisions,
 lack of closeness between parents and the
child,
 Experience of frequently moving from
place to place or culture to culture or country
to country.

8. Process of creativity

9. Techniques of fostering creativity among children
• More than 700 techniques to develop creativity.
• These can be divided into two types:
a) Techniques, and
b) Instructional materials.

10. 1. Brainstorming
• Developed by Alex Osborn
• Worked on ‘thinking’
• A process of developing creative
solutions to problem.
• Divided the thinking into two stages :
a) Ideation stage and
b) Evaluation stage.

11. Ideation stage
How is it executed?
 6-8 Students are made to sit in a circle and
they are made to express ideas freely, and
openly, without fear of anybody or authority.
 These ideas are immediately recorded by a
stenographer or tape recorded, without
the knowledge of the participants.

12. Evaluation stage
How is it executed?
• Many officers and a few of the
participants will sit and consider all
the recorded ideas from the point of
view of implementation.

13. 2. Attribute listing and changing
• Attribute means quality or characteristic
or characteristic quality
Classroom implementation
 its shape calendar can be designed in
circular, square, rectangular or in other
shapes in innovative manner.

14. Instructional materials to foster creativity
• Puzzle solving
• Riddle solving
• Divergent thinking questions
• Mystery plots
• Consequences situations
• Story writing
• Poem writing
• Riddle construction

15. Some more ideas
• Meaningful word or sentence completion
• Developing painting or pictures from
given titles
• Through fairy tales (Promotes
imagination)
• Idea Trap Mechanism
Waking stage
Sleeping
stage
Half sleep Deep sleep
Fertile stage

16. 3. Questioning
Redefining Questions
children are asked to redefine an
object, animal, person or event.
Sample of questions
Why is a fountain pen like a tap?
Consequences questions
 make the children to imagine and
write the consequences, if such an
event takes place.
Sample of questions
Suppose the petrol supply on earth
vanishes all of a sudden.

17. Questioning cont..
Hypothetical questions
• Students are exposed to hypothetical
situations.
• Sample of questions
If you were the manager of a bank?
Provocative questions
 Children are put to read a passage and
provocative questions are thrown after.
 help the children to imagine and go beyond the
information provided in the passage.
Sample of questions
What would have Gandhiji done had he lived
today?

18. Questions seeking new
relationships
Sample of questions
Is month a mile?
Is day a week?
Divergent questions
Many solutions can be there
Sample of questions
A town hidden beneath the mud has been
found. What might have been the reasons
as to why the town might have gone
underground?
Challenging assumptions questions
 help children develop a functional
understanding of the world.
 exercise the mind and children
develop a new perspective.
Sample of questions
Why questions like why should be
respecting our parents?
Future problem solving questions
 Promotes innovation
Sample of questions
An apple picking machine.
Questioning cont..

19. More activities
• Sensitivity Training-
• By touching you have to tell the
names of the pulses.
• What forms do you see in clouds?
• Classification
• Multiple uses
• Invention

20. Developing learning materials to foster creativity
Be respectful of children’s ideas.
Be respectful of imaginative and unusual ideas.
Show to the pupils that their ideas have value.
Encourage and evaluate the self initiated learning.
Tie in evaluation with causes and consequences.
 These principles are also valid for
development of learning materials

21. Developing learning materials to foster creativity cont…
• The activities must lead to a
number of possible responses.
• The activities can be for developing
abilities like-
• fluency,
• flexibility,
• originality,
• elaboration etc.
• The activities must develop
imagination and they must not
insist on a stereotyped behaviour.

22. Role of ICT
• Use to tools like blackboard
• Puzzles riddles on several websites etc
• Future of education

23. Conclusion
• Creativity and intelligence are co-related but not same
• Creativity is an innate ability but can be refined through educationand training
• Attaining experience should be promoted in this regard.
• Creativity is an elaborate process and includes many stages
• Creativity can be fostered among childrenthrough different techniques like
brainstorming
attribute changing and listing
puzzles and riddles
Questioning
• ICT can play a major role in fostering creativity.

24. References
• Fostering Creativity: 12 Tips for Boosting Your
Creative Skills.
https://positivepsychology.com/creativity/
• Persistence: The Key to Creativity and Innovation.
https://www.ideatovalue.com/crea/khkim/2017/05/
persistence-key-creativity-innovation/
• The Five Stages of the Creative Process. James
Taylor. https://www.jamestaylor.me/creative-
process-five-stages/
• Brainstorming.
https://www.mindtools.com/brainstm.html#:~:text
=Brainstorming%20combines%20a%20relaxed%2C
%20informal,can%20spark%20even%20more%20id
eas
• IGNOU study material.

25. Acknowledgements