Teaching Art to Elementary Students

Teaching Art to elementary students

Introduction to creativity

The origin of the word creativity comes from the Latin word `creatus which means `to have grown . Creativity involves the production of novel and useful creative work irrespective of the field of creation . A creative person should have imaginative power and should be capable of producing the imagination into reality . Creativity is possible in all areas of human activity , including the arts and sciences , at work and at play , and in all other areas of daily life . All people possess creative ability . Creative

impulse can move anyone

Some people more creative than others

Creativity depends on the personal intelligence . The people who are more inclined towards producing useful ideas are more likely to invent creative things

Creativity is innate

There is no formal schooling for creativity . Creativity is the innate quality which is possessed by one and all . Exposure and exploration relies on the various factors . Ones daily and routine life may play a major role in producing the creative abilities

Creative talent can be inculcated

In fact , much of the most fundamental research exploring the extra ordinariness of creativity derive from work with young , often pre-school children . One reason may be that such work tends to be therapeutic rather than assessment-driven : more concerned with stimulating and helping than with grading . Another reason - what conservative critics such as Scruton would dismiss as `the Romantic and Rousseauist View ' is that children may be more unselfconsciously `creative ' than older people precisely because they have not been subjected to much formal schooling Based upon decades of clinical practice with small children , Winnicott convinced that `everything that happens is creative except in so far as the individual is ill , or is hampered by ongoing environmental factors which stifle his creative processes (Winnicott 1971 :79 ) And it was in the normal functioning of the healthy child that he saw the most profound and pervasive evidence of and basis for human creativity (Pope , 2005 ,

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Creativity and external influences

Creativity is undoubtedly influenced by the external factors Creativity is the result of intrinsic motivation . The task motivation of a person is specific to particular task and has baseline attitude towards the task determined by appraisal and perceptions for motivation for understanding the task largely determined by external social and environmental factors . There is always a role of situational factors in the production of creative solutions

Creativity , criticism and evaluation

Creativity is always referred to in positive terms . Criticism and evaluation of a particular act or result of creativity improves the degree of performance . Creative person often overlooks or neglects things which may not be suitable for the particular creation . The role of critics plays important in such cases and may result in producing a non-comparable and more appealing creation

Expression of creativity is a must

Expression of creativity should be appreciated and encouraged Creativity is not the booty of few . Creativity is fundamentally a matter of practice , what we do and how we do , with whatever...