The book titled “Creativity in Early Childhood and Creative Children Activities” in which Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Education Faculty, Head of Elementary Education Department Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eda Yazgın participated in as co-editor and chapter writer and, Department of Elementary Education academic staff member Assist. Prof. Dr. Nihan Koran also as chapter writer is published by PEGEM publishing house. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eda Yazgın stated the following regarding the book being published; “We have introduced a new book that we think will serve pre-school education, pre-school teacher candidates, teachers serving pre-school education, and parents with children aged 0-6. This book is the product of nearly two years of work. Our book, which consists of 176 pages and 6 chapters, was realized with the cooperation of 6 academicians who are experts in various branches of preschool education”.
“Activities to Promote Improving Creativity”
Stating that the book approaches the notion of creativity from different aspects, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yazgın continued as follows; “The book includes the theoretical foundations of creative thinking, the development of creativity in children, the relationship between creativity and intelligence, and suggestions for parents and teachers to support the creative potential of children. It also contains activities that teachers and parents can carry out with children to develop creativity. In addition, it examines the relations between creativity and art. In the book, we aimed to bring a multi-dimensional perspective to creativity. Because young children are born with a very superior creative potential, and we have the responsibility to create healthy environments that support their development and potential both at home, at school, in nature and in every environment they grow up in social life”.
“Great Sense of Responsibility during the Preparation Process”
Stating that they hope that not only parents, teachers and children, but also every individual who feels responsible for the child will benefit from this book, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yazgın said, “We loved this book very much. Preschool educators and art educators working at 5 different universities have prepared this book with great effort, love and a great sense of responsibility. We are very excited. As two faculty members from EMU, we take part in this book as an author. We have dedicated our book to the memory of Sir Ken Robinson, who left his mark on the first quarter of the 21st century on creativity in education and passed away in August. He was a great educational philosopher. He was a very valuable scientist who inspired us and became a model. We hope the book will be useful to its readers”.
“Creativity in Children should be kept Alive”
Contributing to the book with the section on the development of creativity in children, Elementary Education Department academic staff member Asst. Prof. Dr. Nihan Koran said the following about the book: “In the recent years, creativity has become a subject that we educators, families and children themselves consider very important, but today we try hard to blunt. While having conversations with our 2 editors and 6 authors on this subject; Based on the importance of raising the awareness of teachers, teacher candidates and families on this subject from a different point of view, we thought that a book containing both the theoretical and practical parts of creativity would be very useful. After our book was published, it attracted a lot of attention and attention on social media.
The main purpose I aimed to contribute to this book was about how creativity can be developed, how it can be observed in the child in terms of its developmental features and how it can be kept alive in the daily life of the child every day without being dull. With this information, both educators, families and children will meet with much more developmental characteristics and age-appropriate information and activities in terms of developing creativity.”
