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Early Years
An International Research Journal
Volume 23, 2003 - Issue 2
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Creative Thinking in the Early Years of Education

Pages 143-154 | Published online: 01 Jul 2010

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Aysun Ata-Akturk & Serap Sevimli-Celik. (2023) Creativity in early childhood teacher education: beliefs and practices. International Journal of Early Years Education 31:1, pages 95-114.
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Emel Tok. (2022) Early childhood teachers’ roles in fostering creativity through free play. International Journal of Early Years Education 30:4, pages 956-968.
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Eleni Loizou & Evi K. Loizou. (2022) Creative play and the role of the teacher through the cultural-historical activity theory framework. International Journal of Early Years Education 30:3, pages 527-541.
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Sofia Eriksson Bergström. (2021) Glitter, flashlights, and building pillows – about physical prerequisites for creativity. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal 29:2, pages 278-292.
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Kholoud Adeeb Al-Dababneh, Eman K. Al-Zboon & Jamal Ahmad. (2019) The creative environment: teachers’ perceptions, self-efficacy, and teaching experience for fostering children’s creativity. Early Child Development and Care 189:10, pages 1620-1637.
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Anna N. N. Hui, Mavis W. J. He & Shengquan Sam Ye. (2015) Arts education and creativity enhancement in young children in Hong Kong. Educational Psychology 35:3, pages 315-327.
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Vassiliki Riga & Elena Chronopoulou. (2014) Applying MacKinnon's 4Ps to foster creative thinking and creative behaviours in kindergarten children. Education 3-13 42:3, pages 330-345.
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Sue Robson & Victoria Rowe. (2012) Observing young children's creative thinking: engagement, involvement and persistence. International Journal of Early Years Education 20:4, pages 349-364.
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Olivia Saracho. (2012) Creativity theories and related teachers’ beliefs. Early Child Development and Care 182:1, pages 35-44.
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Angela Eckhoff. (2011) Creativity in the Early Childhood Classroom: Perspectives of Preservice Teachers. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education 32:3, pages 240-255.
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Xiaojing Shang, Zhujun Jiang, Feng-Kuang Chiang, Yicong Zhang & Dan Zhu. (2023) Effects of robotics STEM camps on rural elementary students’ self-efficacy and computational thinking. Educational technology research and development 71:3, pages 1135-1160.
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Margaret Mangion & Jasmin Antonia Riebel. (2023) Young Creators: Perceptions of Creativity by Primary School Students in Malta. Journal of Intelligence 11:3, pages 53.
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Pawan Pagaria, Abhijeet Kujur & Jyoti Kumar. 2023. Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Learning and Collaboration Technologies 631 641 .
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Ayman Aljarrah & Jo Towers. (2023) The Emergence of Collective Mathematical Creativity Through Students’ Productive Struggle. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education 22:4, pages 856-872.
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Osman Tayyar ÇELİK, Davut AÇAR, Yunus TUNÇ & Burcu CANDEMİR. (2022) Sınıf Öğretmenlerinin Çocuklarda Yaratıcılığa İlişkin GörüşleriClassroom Teachers' Opinions on Creativity In Children. İnönü Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 23:2, pages 1182-1203.
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Rotem Israel-Fishelson & Arnon Hershkovitz. (2022) Studying interrelations of computational thinking and creativity: A scoping review (2011–2020). Computers & Education 176, pages 104353.
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Sharifah Balkish Albar & Jane Elizabeth Southcott. (2021) Problem and project-based learning through an investigation lesson: Significant gains in creative thinking behaviour within the Australian foundation (preparatory) classroom. Thinking Skills and Creativity 41, pages 100853.
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Cavit ERDOĞMUŞ, Emre ÇOBAN, Özgen KORKMAZ & M. Yaşar ÖZDEN. (2021) Technological Formation Scale for Teachers (TFS): Development and Validation. Participatory Educational Research 8:2, pages 260-279.
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John Howlett & Amy Palmer. 2021. Unfolding Creativity. Unfolding Creativity 235 252 .
Di Gong, Harrison H. Yang & Jin Cai. (2020) Exploring the key influencing factors on college students’ computational thinking skills through flipped-classroom instruction. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 17:1.
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Ayman Aljarrah. (2020) Describing collective creative acts in a mathematical problem-solving environment. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior 60, pages 100819.
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Salih AKYILDIZ. (2020) Okul Öncesi Öğretmenlerinin Sanat ve Estetik Değerleri Kazandırma Öz Yeterlik Algılarının İncelenmesiExamining Preschool Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Perceptions in Helping Students Acquire Artistic and Aesthetic Values. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi 18:39, pages 209-234.
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Güneş Salı. (2019) EXAMINING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVITY IN ADOLESCENTS IN 9TH AND 12TH GRADES: A FOUR-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY. Creativity Studies 12:2, pages 341-360.
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Lorna Arnott & Pauline Duncan. (2019) Exploring the pedagogic culture of creative play in early childhood education. Journal of Early Childhood Research 17:4, pages 309-328.
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Zhaocun Li & Li Li. (2019) An examination of kindergarten teachers’ beliefs about creative pedagogy and their perceived implementation in teaching practices. Thinking Skills and Creativity 32, pages 17-29.
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Mustafa Yağcı. (2018) A valid and reliable tool for examining computational thinking skills. Education and Information Technologies 24:1, pages 929-951.
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Schu-Fang Lin. 2019. Creativity in Music Education. Creativity in Music Education 59 72 .
Özgen Korkmaz, Recep Çakir & M. Yaşar Özden. (2017) A validity and reliability study of the computational thinking scales (CTS). Computers in Human Behavior 72, pages 558-569.
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Susanne Garvis & Pernilla Lagerlöf. 2017. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Arts Education. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Arts Education 245 257 .
Sue Robson. (2014) The Analysing Children's Creative Thinking framework: development of an observation-led approach to identifying and analysing young children's creative thinking. British Educational Research Journal 40:1, pages 121-134.
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Adzliana Mohd Daud, Jizah Omar, Punia Turiman & Kamisah Osman. (2012) Creativity in Science Education. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 59, pages 467-474.
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Susanna Paloniemi & Kaija Collin. (2011) Discursive Power and Creativity in Inter-Professional Work. Vocations and Learning 5:1, pages 23-40.
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Raija Hämäläinen & Katja Vähäsantanen. (2011) Theoretical and pedagogical perspectives on orchestrating creativity and collaborative learning. Educational Research Review 6:3, pages 169-184.
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Dan Davies. (2010) Enhancing the role of the arts in primary pre-service teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education 26:3, pages 630-638.
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Canan Lacin Simsek & Fatime Balkan Kıyıcı. (2010) How much science and technology lesson student studying books support creative thinking?. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2:2, pages 2105-2110.
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Anna Craft. (2008) Studying collaborative creativity: Implications for education. Thinking Skills and Creativity 3:3, pages 241-245.
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Anneli Eteläpelto & Jaana Lahti. (2008) The resources and obstacles of creative collaboration in a long-term learning community. Thinking Skills and Creativity 3:3, pages 226-240.
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Shakuntala Banaji & Andrew Burn. (2007) Creativity through a rhetorical lens: implications for schooling, literacy and media education. Literacy 41:2, pages 62-70.
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Mary Fawcett & Penny Hay. (2004) 5x5x5 = Creativity in the Early Years. International Journal of Art <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> Design Education 23:3, pages 234-245.
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