Book Overview

Fostering Creativity

 Dr. Ella Karia’s development of the EYE (Early Years Education) Model serves to highlight essential elements for quality Full Day Kindergarten learning and through her research and teaching experience she is able to take a closer look at how to build more creativity into the lives of children. By encouraging children to develop individual ideas they are learning to master whole brain thinking – by questioning, exploring, and experimenting they are engaging in critical, deeper and higher order thinking. Fostering Creativity reaches out to educators, scholars, and policy-makers who are interested in schooling and child development. This well-researched book sparks curiosities and evokes vitality, vigor and value of the early years of education.

Exploring Creativity

Creativity involves the invention and the assimilation of new thinking and its integration with existing knowledge. The creative process will sometimes take one through the complete cycle, beginning with a contextual challenge or inspiration and resulting in a final product to be evaluated and reflected upon. At other times, the process may only be followed through to the exploration and experimentation phase.

Exploring Creativity reaches out to students, educators, and parents to understand the windows of opportunity in brain development. Nurturing pathways for finding your purpose and identity provides a landscape for self-discovery. Engaging in a creative mindset can develop whole brain thinking. This guide will get individuals started on a transformative journey to becoming their most empowered self.