Research-led creativity training for teachers enhances children's divergent thinking and moves teachers' conceptions closer to researchers' definitions¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? A review of studies in Spain and Italy found that providing teachers with research-led creativity-based programs and training enhanced children's divergent thinking compared to control groups. → Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024 q2 i? Creative and professional development training markedly improved teachers' definitions of creativity and shifted perceptions of creativity from innate to harnessable in all children. → Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024 (2)

Evidence¶

Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024¶

Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting. (2024). Linking Disparate Strands: A Critical Review of the Relationship Between Creativity and Education. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09973-z

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The review reports that "providing teachers with access to research-led creativity-based programs and training enhanced children's divergent thinking compared to control groups" in Spanish and Italian studies.

"a recent review of studies in Spain and Italy found that providing teachers with access to research-led creativity-based programs and training enhanced children's divergent thinking compared to control groups (Ruiz-del-Pino et al., 2022)."

Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024 (2)¶

Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting. (2024). Linking Disparate Strands: A Critical Review of the Relationship Between Creativity and Education. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09973-z

q2 · i? · review · r3

The review reports that teacher training "has a marked impact on teachers' definitions and understanding of creativity", also shifting views from creativity being innate and possessed only by some children to being harnessable in all.

"creative and professional development training has a marked impact on teachers' definitions and understanding of creativity, bringing it closer to researchers' conceptualisations (Mullet et al., 2016)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Creativity — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Ideation-based interventions are a robustly implemented explicit approach that improves creative performance — a broader claim this one bears on
• Classroom activities and targeted interventions—peer collaboration, mind mapping, storytelling, and perspective-taking—improve children's divergent thinking — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Children exhibited creative and communicative ways of thinking and working in collaborative tasks — related
• Open inquiry enhances students' scientific and thinking skills, including metacognitive and creative thinking — related