“The creative adult is the child who survived”- Ursula K. Le Guin.
It is important to educate young children and encourage their
imagination and creativity. By doing this teachers support children’s abilities
to explore, understand and make connections of their world around them (Duffy, 2006). To
support children’s creativity teachers could:
- Understand how valuable it is to have creativity and imagination
- Have knowledge about development, activities to provide, the roles they must take during this process and patterns of interest
- Plan the physical environment; is it exciting, motivating or stimulating?
Now brings me to my next question.
Is it a good thing to have a stimulating environment for children?
Would it create encouragement, easy access and be engaging or would it
create too much choice?
For me I believe that it is important that a learning environment is
safe, secure and pleasurable. Some spaces could be exciting and some spaces
where there are places for resting. For a space encouraging creativity it needs
to be exciting and inspiring but if it’s too stimulating it may be too much for
children which children need to be aware and careful about. Interesting ways
teachers could encourage children’s curiosity and wonder is to place materials
or equipment in different areas around the centre for example placing a book in
the block corner. This could prompt children to question and experiment with
their creativity (MacNaughton & Williams, 2009).
References:
Duffy, B. (2006). Supporting Creativity and Imagination in the Early Years. Open
University
Press,
Buckingham Philadelphia.
Australia: Pearson Education.
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