Reading and creation. A study on literary reading and creativity in initial teacher training

Abstract

This proposal is part of research that explores the learning possibilities of creativity in literary education for teachers in initial training. This is a qualitative research that compares two didactic experiences conducted by two groups of students of Didactics of Children's and Young Adult Literature from the Primary Education degree, at Universitat de Barcelona in the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years. From the reading of 3 works of children's and young adult literature and their corresponding reading seminars, one of the groups had to make a review with the assessment of each reading, while the other group had to elaborate a creative rewriting for each work. and accompany it, also, with a reading assessment. From the data collected, it was possible to establish a comparison of the reading responses between one group and the other. This way, it was verified how the participants showed more depth when constructing the meaning of the work read through a creative activity.