Ways to Cultivating Creative Thinking at School Age

Abstract

The objective of this experimental article is to demonstrate how creative thinking methods succeed instimulating the creative thinking process both in school and in everyday life. Theoretical information about creative thinking provided a brief introduction and familiarisation with the terms. This paper aims to study ways of cultivating creative thinking at a young school age (3rd grade), and the positive impact these methods have on the development of creative thinking. In this research we used the psycho-pedagogical experiment method, and in addition to this we also used systematic observation and product analysis. The experiment involved two groups of students from the 3rd grade, from the "IAR Pogoneanu" Technological High School, Pogoanele city, Buzău county, 8-9 year old students. The two experimental and control groups experienced an increase in the score. The experimental group had a considerable increase, as a result of the creative thinking games, unlike the control group which had an almost imperceptible increase. Therefore, this research achieved its objective, so it was able to achieve an increase and improvement in results as a result of the application of creative thinking games. Following the experiment, both we and the teachers in the educational unit where the experiment took place, noticed a positive change in the students' behaviour.

Keywords

• creative thinking
• psiho-pedagogical experiment method
• games
• educational
• positive change