Promote Creativity and Creative Learning in Young Children
CYPOP 7
Unit 082 - Promote creativity and creative learning in young children
Assessment criteria
Understand the concepts of creativity and creative learning and how these affect all aspects of young children’s learning and development.
1.1 Analyze the differences between creative learning and creativity.
1.2 Explain current theoretical approaches to creativity and creative learning in early childhood.
1.3 Critically analyze how creativity and creative learning can support young children’s emotional, social, intellectual, communication and physical development
Analyze the differences between creative learning and creativity.
Creative learning is about how children are actively involved in their own learning, and their ability to make choices and decisions. This can be achieved through providing a creative environment, allowing exploration through play and praising creative efforts.
Creativity is about risk taking and making connections, allowing children to explore and express themselves through a variety of media or materials including, dance, music, making things, drawing, painting and make believe and to make new things emerge as a result. Being creative is strongly linked to play and can emerge through a child being absorbed in their own actions and ideas.
Although most of us feel we know what creativity means, in educational forums creative learning and creativity can have variety of meanings. Creativity will be linked to the traditional creative arts and the development of imagination and imaginative play, while creative learning will be linked to the wider context in which children can show skills in problem solving, exploration and imaginative thinking.
Creative
Creativity in this context is about helping children to find ways to express themselves through the arts. It is about exploring emotions and self-expressions. Therefore, the focus of creativity in this sense is only partly about producing an end product and is more
Unit 082 - Promote creativity and creative learning in young children
Assessment criteria
Understand the concepts of creativity and creative learning and how these affect all aspects of young children’s learning and development.
1.1 Analyze the differences between creative learning and creativity.
1.2 Explain current theoretical approaches to creativity and creative learning in early childhood.
1.3 Critically analyze how creativity and creative learning can support young children’s emotional, social, intellectual, communication and physical development
Analyze the differences between creative learning and creativity.
Creative learning is about how children are actively involved in their own learning, and their ability to make choices and decisions. This can be achieved through providing a creative environment, allowing exploration through play and praising creative efforts.
Creativity is about risk taking and making connections, allowing children to explore and express themselves through a variety of media or materials including, dance, music, making things, drawing, painting and make believe and to make new things emerge as a result. Being creative is strongly linked to play and can emerge through a child being absorbed in their own actions and ideas.
Although most of us feel we know what creativity means, in educational forums creative learning and creativity can have variety of meanings. Creativity will be linked to the traditional creative arts and the development of imagination and imaginative play, while creative learning will be linked to the wider context in which children can show skills in problem solving, exploration and imaginative thinking.
Creative
Creativity in this context is about helping children to find ways to express themselves through the arts. It is about exploring emotions and self-expressions. Therefore, the focus of creativity in this sense is only partly about producing an end product and is more