When children engage in play, they develop essential skills like creativity, flexibility, imagination, and problem-solving. Children who engage in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) activities also build similar skills. Both play and STEAM enable children to ask questions, try different solutions, and develop explanations for…

The present research involved two studies that investigated the creativity development of Chinese children and young adolescents (9-14 years old). It was hypothesized that family socio-economic status (SES), perceived parenting (e.g., parental autonomy support, involvement, and overcontrol), and after-school activities contribute to the…

The current study aimed to investigate whether age, gender, and testing environment may have an effect on children's creativity in a real-life setting. Participants included 111 children aged from seven to eleven years. They were given one verbal (Guilford's Alternative Uses Task) and one figural (Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production)…

The mobility of peoples and their settlement in our country has created a new dynamic in dealing with population groups with particular linguistic, cultural and social characteristics. At the same time, it brought to the fore the case of the Roma, who have been active in Greece for decades without being fully integrated into the social and…