How Children's Creative Visual Imagination and Creative Thinking Relate to Their Representation of Space

Autor/inn/en	Jankowska, Dorota M.; Gajda, Aleksandra; Karwowski, Maciej
Titel	How Children's Creative Visual Imagination and Creative Thinking Relate to Their Representation of Space
Quelle	In: International Journal of Science Education, 41 (2019) 8, S.1096-1117 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0693
DOI	10.1080/09500693.2019.1594441
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Creative Thinking; Visual Learning; Visualization; Imagination; Schemata (Cognition); Astronomy; Scientific Concepts; Science Education; Elementary School Science; Concept Formation; Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Kreatives Denken; Visual education; Visuelles Lernen; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Astronomie; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Polen
Abstract	This article explores how creative visual imagination and creative thinking can help children to construct mental models of space. A mixed-method study, integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches and involving 98 five-year-old children (54 girls and 44 boys) demonstrated that creative visual imagination, rather than creative thinking, is linked with the knowledge and understanding of space. These results support the notion that creative visual imagination contributes to improvements in children's understanding of basic astronomical concepts. Interestingly, creative thinking was not associated with understanding and knowledge of cosmic phenomena in models taking into account creative imagination. The qualitative analysis showed differences in children's representations of space. We discuss the consequences of these findings for science education, particularly the teaching of elementary astronomy. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01