Children's Creative Thinking Abilities and Social Orientations in Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care

Autor/inn/en	Nikkola, Teemu; Reunamo, Jyrki; Ruokonen, Inkeri
Titel	Children's Creative Thinking Abilities and Social Orientations in Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 192 (2022) 6, S.872-886 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nikkola, Teemu) ORCID (Reunamo, Jyrki) ORCID (Ruokonen, Inkeri)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2020.1813122
Schlagwörter	Creative Thinking; Foreign Countries; Early Childhood Education; Imagination; Thinking Skills; Correlation; Kindergarten; Tests; Adults; Preschool Children; Personal Autonomy; Child Care Centers; Creativity Tests; Social Behavior; Peer Relationship; Teacher Student Relationship; Finland; Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreatives Denken; Ausland; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Denkfähigkeit; Korrelation; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Individuelle Autonomie; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Creativity test; Kreativitätstest; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Peer-Beziehungen; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Finnland
Abstract	The study presented in this article is part of a larger study called Progressive Feedback (blogs.helsinki.fi/orientate), which is an early childhood education and care (ECEC) research and development project. The aim of this article is to find out: (1) how children's tested creative thinking abilities, fluency, originality and imagination correlated with children's social orientations in kindergarten; and (2) how children's participative orientations occur in relation with the teacher and peers. The data consist of Reunamo's child interview tool and the Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM) test. The data (280 children from 23 kindergartens and pre-primary schools) were gathered from two municipalities in southern Finland. The results show that the participative orientation was strongly connected with creative thinking abilities, but it was rare in social situations concerning adults. In participative orientation, children concern the situation and intend to change it. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01