Scaffolding Positive Creativity in Secondary School Students

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Abstract

Guided by research in creativity studies, moral development, and positive youth develop-ment, this paper proposes four principles to guide education toward positive creativity: (1) building prosocial motivation, (2) building emotion skills to build persistence, (3) building an understanding of creativity as dynamic, and (4) building self-concept of positive creativity. To illustrate applying these theoretically derived principles to teaching positive creativity, we provide examples from the inspirED program for secondary school students, which aims to build a more positive social and emotional climate through student-led creative projects. The four phases of the inspirED program—Assess the problems, Brainstorm ideas, Complete a project, and Debrief the project’s impact—are mapped onto the four principles of teaching for positive creativity.

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Ivcevic, Z., Hoffmann, J. D., & McGarry, J. A. (2022). Scaffolding Positive Creativity in Secondary School Students. Education Sciences, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12040239

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