DaVinci Program: Enhancing Children’s Creativity Through Experiential Learning Activities
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Problem Statement: Developing creative potential is a current problem, because this experience facilitates the access to the development of the inner potential, especially in children. This research presents an experiential learning program, called DaVinci Workshops, which is a Romanian experiential perspective on enhancing creativity in children.
Purpose of Study is to find out if creative potential can be enhanced through certain experiential learning activities.
Methods: This research included intervention trainings, made in 12 sessions, on a number of 122 non-clinic subjects, aged between 6-11 years. The research had a pre-test post-test design, while classical tests from Guilford and Minnesota measuring flexibility, fluidity and originality were used.
Findings and Results: The tested factors of the creative potential were enhanced, implying a development of the creative potential.
Conclusions and Recommendations: Enhancing creativity through experiential learning activities is a very pleasant process for children, who are very positive and enthusiastic during this kind of programs, with numerous good outcomes.
Keywords: creativity; intervention; experiential learning; children.
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