Creative Education in Upper Elementary School Class to Improve Attitudes Toward the Use of Concepts in Idea Generation
Keywords:
Creative Education, Concepts, Motivation, Idea generation, Look-Like ChartAbstract
This study aims to help 10 to 12-year-olds understand that the quality of their ideas can be improved using concepts, which is clearly shown when they generate ideas and develop their attitude toward using the concepts in the future. Here, concepts are words that are more abstract than the final ideas and that have a function to direct new ideas. As a method to improve students’ attitudes toward the use of concepts, the authors showed the concepts in the idea generation process. To improve the attitude toward the use of concepts, the author developed a Look-Like Chart, which is a tool that incorporates the use of concepts in the idea generation process. To evaluate whether the students were able to develop an attitude toward their use, The authors compared the differences between the two groups: the “Shown Concepts” group and the “Not-Shown Concepts” group. A Mind Map was used for the tool that did not show concepts. The results revealed that their attitude toward using concepts was improved.
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