Tag Archives: Creativity

Fostering Children and Adolescents’ Creative Thinking in Education. Theoretical Model of Drama Pedagogy Training

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Drama Pedagogy Training (DPT), as other drama-based pedagogies, has been related to several outcomes, including creativity enhancement. This enhancement is commonly proven through the measurement of different creative processes. In our review we systematize characteristics, activities and techniques of DPT … Continue reading →

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About the process of doing it together in Working-Art

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

This paper is an unfolding proposal of the studies carried out on the concepts of language through artistic practice. The production of activities by Allan Kaprow and the teaching artistry of Sandra Corazza are supported by the philosophy of Gilles … Continue reading →

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Collective Creativity in Social Network Development

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Giorgio Bertini

Creativity in organizations has become a key topic of organizational research. This work expands on existing research by exploring creativity in the dynamics of social networks. Collective creativity is introduced as a central part of organizational learning and seen as … Continue reading →

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Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

This text presents a Vygotskian perspective on children’s and adults’ symbolic engagement in play, multi-modal meaning-making, and the arts. Psychologists, artists, and educators present research and practice in a variety of learning environments through the lens of Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory. … Continue reading →

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Understanding Imaginative Thinking During Childhood – Sociocultural Conceptions of Creativity and Imaginative Thought

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

What if we viewed imaginative thought and creativity as fundamental to cognition? What if discussions of school reform focused on infusing imaginative thinking into the curriculum instead of ‘‘covering the content’’ and ‘‘teaching to the test’’? In this paper, we … Continue reading →

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Vygotsky – Imagination and Creativity in Childhood

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Lev Vygotsky – in conclusion, we should emphasize the particular importance of cultivating creativity in school-age children. The entire future of humanity will be attained through the creative imagination; orientation to the future, behavior based on the future and derived … Continue reading →

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Supporting Creativity and Imagination in the Early Years

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Learning through the arts has the potential to stimulate open-ended activity that encourages discovery, exploration, experimentation, and invention, thus contributing to children’s development in all areas of learning and helping to make the curriculum meaningful to them. Bernadette Duffy draws … Continue reading →

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