Using Creative Activities to Discover Children’s Understanding of the World

• Authors: Jolanta Bonar

Abstracts

EN

Cognition of the world, construction of knowledge related to our surroundings, and expressing meanings that stem from our life experiences are by no means easy processes. A substantial part of our knowledge remains dormant, but its extraction makes it possible to grasp children’s visions of the world. Even if rarely applied in educational practice, creative activities remain a very effective approach to release children’s conceptualisation of the world. This paper presents research results that demonstrate the efficiency of creative-thinking techniques in extracting children’s visions of the world, as illustrated by the concept of the family. The study, which was conducted as a didactic intervention, was performed in the 2018-2019 school year on a group of younger pupils from a large city. The results reconstructed children’s process of understanding the above-mentioned concept and revealed the possibilities behind creative psychodidactics.

Keywords

EN

didactic intervention; creative activity; understanding a concept

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 58
• Pages: 11-21

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Jolanta Bonar

• University of Łódź

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.19.58.4.01

Biblioteka Nauki

1967569