Creativity Workshops at Home: The Role of Creative Competencies, Attitudes and Practices of Parents in the Shaping of Creativity in Pre-school Children 00-0F-CWH
The module will cover the following topics:
- What is creativity? Various models of creativity and how they can be applied to the home environment. Can creativity be taught? Can it be assessed?Factors affecting creative behaviour.
- Family context & creativity; parental awareness, competencies, attitudes, creative potential, practices and their relationship with preschool children’s creativity; other characteristics of a family (e.g., structure, power relations) that affect young children’s creativity;
- Aspects of the home environment (space, time, resources) that affect creativity; aspects, processes and outcomes of creative play
- Activities/ play that stimulate creativity in specific developmental domains
- Creativity in the digital age – how technology can facilitate but also challenge children's creativity
Aims of the module:
• Familiarising the students with the current research on creativity in the family context
• Developing students’ scientific language competencies within the topics discussed in the module
• Developing students’ communicative abilities in English, including:
o comprehension of scientific texts
o communication of information – group oral presentation
• Extending students’ research skills including searching and utilising foreign language scientific literature in the area of creativity in the home environment
• Developing students’ organisational skills (e.g., effective cooperation and project preparation in a group)
Type of course
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Assessment criteria
Assignments, methods and criteria of their assessment:
1) Active attendance. Short activities in the lecture – 10% of the overall mark
2) Reading an assigned text. The knowledge of the text will be assessed with a quiz.- 30% of the overall mark
3) Multimedia presentation – students are asked to place themselves in the shoes of an early years educator. The aim of the presentation is to raise parents’ awareness on how to support their children’s creativity. Students think of a creative activity or a form of play that can be done at home with a child (3-6 years). They prepare a group presentation in the form of a 10-15 min video recording or a 10-12 PP slides in which they describe the activity/ play and present scientific evidence on how it stimulates creativity. Creativity is encouraged. Group work (4-5 people) worth 60% of the overall mark.
Marking scale
• 51% – 60% – satisfactory (3)
• 61% – 70% – more than satisfactory (3+)
• 71% – 80% – good (4)
• 81% – 90% – more than good + (4+)
• 91% – 100% – very good (5)
Additional information
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