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СТИМУЛИРАНЕ НА ДИВЕРГЕНТНОМИСЛОВНИТЕ СПОСОБНОСТИ ПОСРЕДСТВОМ ХУМОР В ДЕТСКАТА ГРАДИНА
STIMULATING DIVERGENT THINKING SKILLS THROUGH HUMOR

Author(s): Asya Veleva
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Институт за изследване на населението и човека - Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: The key significance of creativity to personal health, success and happiness suggests that any possibility to promote its development with young people should be employed. The relation between humor and creativity is such a possibility. When the three aspects of that relation (product, process and personal characteristics) are analyzed, one can see the position of the humor among creativity development tools particularly appropriate for little children. The theoretical analysis shows that humor belongs to the field of creativity as it contains the main elements of creation. This conclusion was the basis of originating creativity training model, where children's divergent thinking skills were stimulated by assigning the task of playing games producing funny original effects. The promising future of such an approach is predetermined by the fact that the humor stimulates the creative capabilities of a person to generate original ideas without necessarily basing them on formal logics. That makes teaching creativity accessible to small children (at preschool age), while most of the conventional creativity-encouraging methods are hard to use with them.

  • Issue Year: 08/2005
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 179-186
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian