nurturing creativity in the home
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Nurturing Creativity in the Home
Family as first teachers
–Pablo Picasso
“Every child is an Artist. The problem is how to remain
an Artist once we grow up.”
Ian Y6SS
–Pat Kane 2004
“Play will be to the 21st century what work was to the Industrial Age- our dominant
way of knowing, doing and creating value.”
–Ken Robinson
“Creativity is as important now in Education as Literacy and we should treat it
with the same status.”
Creativity Profiles Creativity comes in different forms. A number of different theorists have
suggested models of the creative person. One model suggests that there are kinds to produce growth, innovation, speed, etc. These are referred to
as the four "Creativity Profiles" that can help achieve such goals.[80] !
(i) Incubate (Long-term Development)!(ii) Imagine (Breakthrough Ideas)!
(iii) Improve (Incremental Adjustments)!(iv) Invest (Short-term Goals)!
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Research by Dr Mark Batey of the Psychometrics at Work Research Group at Manchester Business School has suggested that the creative profile can be explained by four primary creativity traits with narrow facets within each
!(i) "Idea Generation" (Fluency, Originality, Incubation and Illumination)!
(ii) "Personality" (Curiosity and Tolerance for Ambiguity)!(iii) "Motivation" (Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Achievement)!
(iv) "Confidence" (Producing, Sharing and Implementing)!!!
This model was developed in a sample of 1000 working adults using the statistical techniques of Exploratory Factor Analysis followed by
Confirmatory Factor Analysis by Structural Equation Modelling.[81]
Traits
Daniel Pink, in his 2005 book A Whole New Mind, repeating arguments posed throughout the 20th century, argues that we are entering a new age where creativity is becoming increasingly important. In this conceptual age, we will need to foster and encourage right-directed thinking (representing creativity and emotion) over left-directed thinking (representing logical, analytical thought). However, this simplification of 'right' versus 'left' brain thinking is not supported by the research data.[105] Nickerson[106] provides a summary of the various creativity techniques that have been proposed. These include approaches that have been developed by both academia and industry: ! 1. Establishing purpose and intention 2. Building basic skills 3. Encouraging acquisitions of domain-specific knowledge 4. Stimulating and rewarding curiosity and exploration 5. Building motivation, especially internal motivation 6. Encouraging confidence and a willingness to take risks 7. Focusing on mastery and self-competition 8. Promoting supportable beliefs about creativity 9. Providing opportunities for choice and discovery 10.. Developing self-management (metacognitive skills)
Skills
Creativity is an attitude
Children and young people involved in the arts should:
1) have a sense of ownership and control in the process;
2) have a sense of possibility, transformation and change – that the process is not closed with pre-planned outcomes;
3) feel safe in the process, and know that no matter what they do, they will not be exposed to ridicule, relentless testing, or the fear of being wrong;
4) feel the process can be individual, co-operative or both;
5) feel there is a flow between the arts, that they are not boxed off from each other;
6) feel they are working in an environment that welcomes their home cultures, backgrounds, heritages and languages;
7) feel that what they are making or doing matters – that the activity has status within the school and beyond;
8) be encouraged and enabled to find audiences for their work;
9) be exposed to the best practice and the best practitioners possible;
10) be encouraged to think of the arts as including or involving investigation, invention, discovery, play and co-operation and to think that these happen within the actual doing, but also in the talk, commentary and critical dialogue that goes on around the activity itself.
Six Degrees of Creativity
Brian Brake
Modelling Mindful Habits
Activ “Creativity”
as a daily,
weekly, monthly,
seasonal, annual habit.
Valuing the simple joy of sharing and passing down skills
Responding to the Arts
Responding to Nature
Celebrating Reflective Practice
Nurturing Adult /Parent Creativity !
Modelling Learner and Risk taker
Celebrating Third Culture Opportunities
Social Media Tools
Social Media~ Twitter and the useful hash tag #
Cathy Hunt Ipad Art Exponent and Adviser (regarding the purchase of apps)
Pinterest as family collaboration
How to…….
Coding communities
Calendar Events and Exhibitions, Resources in Singapore
https://www.freelancersunion.org/blog/2014/03/26/museums-good-for-you-happier-community/
How Museums Make Us Happy
Tyler Institute Open day
Art and Science Museum
La Salle
National Library Children’s Library
Children’s Theatre
http://www.srt.com.sg/
http://www.kidsfest.com.sg/
Goodman Centre: Pottery workshop
http://www.antonijagros.com/main/Art_Classes_for_Kids.html
Li’l Lodge