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Children’s perception of a creative person
Author
Lim, Peck Hui
Supervisor
Tan, Ai-Girl
Abstract
This dissertation examined children’s perceptions of a creative person. A total of 115 primary school children in Singapore participated in the study. They were asked to make a drawing of a creative person, to indicate the creative person’s gender and age, and then used a six-point Likert scale to rate characteristics of the creative person in the picture (IRP, 2009). Their drawings were analysed qualitatively. Their responses were subjected to quantitative analysis. From the findings, we learned that children’s experiences influence their drawing of a creative person. Eighty percent of the children’s drawings of the creative person were of the same gender and seventy percent of them of them were of the same age range (between 9-11 years old). The findings support Vygotsky’s (2004) theory of creative imagination that experience influence imagination and vice versa. The two-sample t-test showed that there was a significant difference between girls and boys in terms of their choice of gender for the picture. Children rated hard-working and imaginative highly, and technically talented moderately, as characteristics of a creative person in the picture.
Date Issued
2013
Call Number
BF408 Lim
Date Submitted
2013