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Direct linkAmber Beisly; Anne Moffitt – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
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…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Activities, Creative Development, Creativity
Peer reviewedRunco, Mark A. – New Directions for Child Development, 1996
Defines creativity, recognizing both developmental continuities and discontinuities. Also distinguishes between creative interpretation and cognitive restructuring, emphasizing transformational abilities, and between perceptual and discretionary cognitive processes. (DR)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, Creative Development
