Beschreibung
The society we live in "requires" creativity and such a request comes from many different fields. Even though a growing body of research stressed the importance of fostering childrens creativity, few attention is paid to investigate childrens conceptions about creativity, that is, implicit theories. The main purpose of this work is to investigate childrens creativity focusing on specific mental mechanisms involved in the creative process in order to catch any developmental changes and in order to explore the role of implicit theories. The book starts from a review of several contributions about implicit theories of creativity. The research is then described according to defined steps as follows: the definition and the application of an instrument to evaluate the restructuring act, a core mechanism of the creative process; the application of the instrument together with other tests to measure how children express their creativity and how they consider the creative people. Main evidences of the study are discussed and the conclusive section of the book arises important educational and methodological questions.
Autorenporträt
She graduated in Educational Psychology at the University of Urbino and she got her Ph.D. in Psychology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. Her research interests focus on the creation of instruments and training aimed at investigating and fostering children's creativity.
