Stimulating Children’s Creativity Using the Pragmatic Approach

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10.2991/assehr.k.200808.052How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pragmatic approach to creativity, creative cognitive abilities, children developmental aspect

Abstract

There are some intriguing findings at K-2, Lab. School UPI District Campus Cibiru. Besides the unmanaged children’s creativity, there are children who’s withdown syndrome. The other, having difficulties interacting with them, frequently showing aggressive behaviors towards one another and disrupting the class. The stimulation of creative cognitive skill and the application of the pragmatic approach to creativity within the Elliot’s model of action research [1] aimed to solve those problems and is predicted that it will encourage children’s overall development. As the result of the treatments, the average children’s development reach 2.78 points in the 1st cycle, 2.69 in the 2nd, and 2.81 in the 3rd. Whereas the average occurrence of creative cognitive reach 1,15 points in the 1st cycle, 1,03 in the 2nd, and 1,04 in the 3rd. Even though both variables statistically don’t have good correlations, the pragmatic approach to creativity is having some complementary effects on both variables. In conclusion, the pragmatic approach to creativity is somewhat successful to stimulate children’s creative cognitive skills and encourage their overall development.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Uus Kusnadi
AU  - Mohamad Helmi Ismail
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/10
TI  - Stimulating Children’s Creativity Using the Pragmatic Approach
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Early Childhood Education and Parenting 2019 (ECEP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 264
EP  - 269
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200808.052
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200808.052
ID  - Kusnadi2020
ER  -