Creativity in Primary Education

The concept of creativity has been evolving, nowadays, it is considered as an intrinsic ability of people but it is not developed in the classroom. Because of this, my final degree work tries to find the keys of how to form a creative space that surrounds the student, for this it is necessary: a classroom that fosters a climate of personal development, motivate the student to develop critical thinking, and have a teaching team that is trained to deal with the changes that are occurring in society. In relation to creativity we find divergent thinking, in contrast to this type of thinking, in the classroom, convergent thinking is favored and because of this students who excel in creativity have a higher percentage of school failure. The author Ken Robinson talks about how schools kill creativity by forming uncreative students and classrooms that look like factories. Creativity should develop over time, but it drops drastically in the last years of primary school.

Autorentext

La autoría del libro la conforman maestras de Educación Primaria adscritas a la academia RG Formación quienes, movida por una búsqueda de la mejora en la calidad educativa han conformado, bajo la dirección del profesor Jose María Rabal Alonso -ISEN, UMU y miembro del equipo de investigación DIDE- el minucioso trabajo aquí presente.