Exploring Children's Creative Narratives

This collection of international research offers fresh perspectives on children's creative processes and the expression of their creative imagination together with informed theoretical critiques of current educational practice.Drawing on detailed research evidence from innovative educational initiatives in different countries Faulkner & Coates develop new theoretical and practical insights that challenge traditional educational thinking about children's creativity. The main themes investigated through chapters from well-respected international contributors:support the argument that expressions of creativity and the exercise of creative processes by young children are multimodal, social and collaborative.challenge the view that young children's creativity can only be judged in terms of their creative outputs or products.argue that it is more important to concentrate on the processes that children engage in when they are absorbed in acts of creative expression.contest conventional discourses about the origins and nature of creativity in relation to arts education in schools.discuss the need for formal educational training programmes to offer trainee and experienced teachers more sophisticated cultural discourses and experiences so that they can realise their own creative potential as well as that of the children they teach.This broad yet coherent collection of fresh perspectives on creativity in childhood is essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in early childhood as well as for Early Years Professionals with a particular interest in creativity.