Scaffolding Positive Creativity in Secondary School Students
Guided by research in creativity studies, moral development, and positive youth development, this paper proposes four principles to guide education toward positive creativity: (1) building prosocial motivation, (2) building emotion skills to build persistence, (3) building an understanding of creati...
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| author | Zorana Ivcevic Jessica D. Hoffmann Julie A. McGarry |
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| description | Guided by research in creativity studies, moral development, and positive youth development, this paper proposes four principles to guide education toward positive creativity: (1) building prosocial motivation, (2) building emotion skills to build persistence, (3) building an understanding of creativity as dynamic, and (4) building self-concept of positive creativity. To illustrate applying these theoretically derived principles to teaching positive creativity, we provide examples from the inspirED program for secondary school students, which aims to build a more positive social and emotional climate through student-led creative projects. The four phases of the inspirED program—Assess the problems, Brainstorm ideas, Complete a project, and Debrief the project’s impact—are mapped onto the four principles of teaching for positive creativity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-646b009de5d747fd956d2849a4db06a52023-12-01T01:39:57ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022022-03-0112423910.3390/educsci12040239Scaffolding Positive Creativity in Secondary School StudentsZorana Ivcevic0Jessica D. Hoffmann1Julie A. McGarry2Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, New Haven, CT 06511, USAYale Center for Emotional Intelligence, New Haven, CT 06511, USAYale Center for Emotional Intelligence, New Haven, CT 06511, USAGuided by research in creativity studies, moral development, and positive youth development, this paper proposes four principles to guide education toward positive creativity: (1) building prosocial motivation, (2) building emotion skills to build persistence, (3) building an understanding of creativity as dynamic, and (4) building self-concept of positive creativity. To illustrate applying these theoretically derived principles to teaching positive creativity, we provide examples from the inspirED program for secondary school students, which aims to build a more positive social and emotional climate through student-led creative projects. The four phases of the inspirED program—Assess the problems, Brainstorm ideas, Complete a project, and Debrief the project’s impact—are mapped onto the four principles of teaching for positive creativity.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/4/239positive creativityinspirEDprosocial motivationemotion skillscreative self-concept |
| spellingShingle | Zorana Ivcevic Jessica D. Hoffmann Julie A. McGarry Scaffolding Positive Creativity in Secondary School Students Education Sciences positive creativity inspirED prosocial motivation emotion skills creative self-concept |
| title | Scaffolding Positive Creativity in Secondary School Students |
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| title_short | Scaffolding Positive Creativity in Secondary School Students |
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| topic | positive creativity inspirED prosocial motivation emotion skills creative self-concept |
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