How to enhance children's creativity through storytelling: handbook for early childhood education practitioners
Herranen, Dominika (2020)
Herranen, Dominika
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020112724705
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020112724705
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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how storytelling methods can be used to enhance children’s creativity. Creativity is regarded as one of the most important skills in today’s world. It is considered as an effective tool to face uncertain future and to cope with challenges in life. Creativity positively affects one’s self-esteem, inner strength, adaptation abilities, and, as consequence, one’s well-being and mental health. Thus, the aim of early childhood education should be to create opportunities to promote and foster children’s creative talents. This can be accomplished not only by commonly known and used methods such as visual arts, music or drama, but also through storytelling activities.
Every child has creative potential. Every child has potential as creative storytellers. Stories enables children to express themselves in an uninhibited manner. And this spontaneous and unrestrained opportunity creates a space for the creativity to flourish. As a method enhancing creativity, storytelling can be viewed as a social pedagogical tool which builds the foundation for participation, empowerment, trustful relationship, holistic learning and overall well-being.
Hence, I have decided to conduct a theoretical research on how to enhance children’s creativity through storytelling. I explored the concept of creativity and the meaning of storytelling method, and I investigated how to apply storytelling techniques in practice in order to foster creativity. The outcome of this research is a handbook for early childhood practitioners, in which I included a brief presentation of theoretical approaches as well as practical suggestions for implementing storytelling activities in early childhood education settings.
Every child has creative potential. Every child has potential as creative storytellers. Stories enables children to express themselves in an uninhibited manner. And this spontaneous and unrestrained opportunity creates a space for the creativity to flourish. As a method enhancing creativity, storytelling can be viewed as a social pedagogical tool which builds the foundation for participation, empowerment, trustful relationship, holistic learning and overall well-being.
Hence, I have decided to conduct a theoretical research on how to enhance children’s creativity through storytelling. I explored the concept of creativity and the meaning of storytelling method, and I investigated how to apply storytelling techniques in practice in order to foster creativity. The outcome of this research is a handbook for early childhood practitioners, in which I included a brief presentation of theoretical approaches as well as practical suggestions for implementing storytelling activities in early childhood education settings.