Fostering students' creativity through lapbooking: A case study in an indonesian primary school context

Abstract

One of the challenges in education in the twenty-first century is to develop students' creativity. Although, generally speaking, students' creativity can be nurtured and encouraged, and although creativity alone can even be taught, fostering the creativity of elementary school pupils in project-based learning is worth investigation. To fill the gap, the present case study was aimed to investigate how learner creativity in project-based learning can be fostered through an assessment called lapbooking. This study was conducted at the Laboratory Elementary School of the Indonesia University of Education. The study involved a fifth-grade teacher and 24 students aged between 10 and 11 years who voluntarily enrolled to this study. Data were garnered from field notes, journals, interviews, and learning portfolios. Furthermore, a descriptive approach was employed to analyze and interpret the data to make meaning of the research findings. The results of the study showcase that the implementation of project-based learning with lapbooking could challenge the student participants to develop their creativity by exploring and creating interesting projects. Therefore, it can be concluded that lapbooking in project-based learning can foster students' creativity.