http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20108 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:54:39 GMT 2026-06-20T15:54:39Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20116 Tytuł: Can we Help Children Develop Creative Potential through Pretend Play? Interview with Sandra Russ Autorzy: Russ, Sandra; Lebuda, Izabela Abstrakt: In the interview with Sandra Russ, one of most prolific creativity researchers, we discuss her career, main areas of research interest, chosen research methods and share her thoughts about the future of research on creativity and effectiveness in scientific work. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20116 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20115 Tytuł: Pragmatism and Creativity: Patenting the School Art Manifesto from Dewey’s Aesthetic Experience Autorzy: Montenegro Ortiz, Carlos Manuel Abstrakt: An original way to make sense of the aesthetic experience concept – in a Deweyan perspective – is from the Art-Education binomial. After studying the pragmatist philosophical category of Experience in John Dewey, a product of Doctoral theoretical research in education, it was possible to characterize a new art movement: School Art. Hence, this conceptual-theoretical finding will expand a wide range of art movements that emerged between the nineteenth century and contemporaneity: Art Nouveau, Impressionism, Abstract Art, Futurism, Action Painting, and Children’s Art, among many others. However, because of lexical reasons and hoping to achieve greater acceptance among theorists, the so-called School Art will patent from this paper as a neologism named from now on as Artscholarism. Thus, its philosophical-historical foundations, characteristics, and description will be the article’s primary purpose. In that sense, psychological and historical discussions will emerge throughout the paper. In conclusion, the new art movement – Artscholarism – comes from Deweyan thinking and is framed by creativity and a social context. Opis: The approaches suggested in this paper are part of a non-published doctoral thesis in education, entitled: From Experience to School Art: Towards an Art Education from John Dewey’s Philosophical Thought (Montenegro Ortiz, 2015, pp. 1–361). Original title in Spanish: De la Experiencia al Arte Escolar: Hacia una Educación Artística desde el Pensamiento Filosófico de John Dewey. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20115 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20114 Tytuł: Facilitating Creativity through Multimodal Writing: An Examination of Students’ Choices and Perceptions Autorzy: Allagui, Besma Abstrakt: Creativity has long been central in multimodal writing. Unlike traditional writing, which uses text alone, multimodal writing relies on the use of a combination of modes to convey meaning such as text, speech, images, audio, gesture, and space. Scholars of multimodal writing stressed that using multiple modes allows for greater creativity and newness. Recently, however, scholars have questioned whether creativity is so straightforward in students’ multimodal writing. Students may resist producing new types of writing. Their creativity outcome is dependent upon their preferences and their goals in the writing assignment. This article examines students’ choices when given the freedom to compose in any mode and their perceptions of their multimodal writing experience in comparison with traditional essay writing. Drawing on data from students’ multimodal products, surveys, and interviews we show how students simply used available resources in their multimodal composing and how creativity was negotiated. Although they identified several affordances for multimodal writing and described it as more interesting than conventional essay writing, they seemed to resist incorporating a variety of semiotic resources into their projects because their goal was to showcase their writing skills. We argue that developing explicit knowledge about various modes helps improve students’ understanding of multimodal writing as creative design. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20114 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20113 Tytuł: Arts and Creativity in Hong Kong Kindergartens: A Document Analysis of Quality Review Reports Autorzy: Yeung, Jerry; Bautista, Alfredo; Siu, Carrey Tik-Sze; Tam, Po-Chi; Wong, Kit-Mei Abstrakt: In Hong Kong, the Education Bureau (EDB) regularly assesses the quality of services provided by publicly subsidized kindergartens to children aged 3 to 6. Quality Review (QR) reports are written by government officials and published on the EDB’s website. This study analyzes the feedback pertaining to Arts and Creativity to better understand the role this learning area plays in Hong Kong kindergartens. Lexical and content analyses were applied on 164 QR reports published between 2017 and 2020. Findings showed that: (1) the role of Arts and Creativity in the QR reports is relatively minor, which suggests that this learning area is somewhat secondary in Hong Kong kindergartens; (2) presence of the various art forms differs significantly, with Music and Visual Arts being more frequent than Drama and especially Dance; and (3) classroom activities seem to be teacher-centered, product-oriented, and reproductive. Findings suggest that the Arts and Creativity pedagogies enacted in Hong Kong kindergartens are not fully consistent with the official kindergarten Curriculum Guide, which draws on a Western conceptualization of creativity in the arts. We argue that this curriculum/practice gap reveals the need for local stakeholders to embrace a “glocalization” paradigm. Limitations, future research, and implications are discussed. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20113 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z