What is creative thinking?
When we say, "How creative you are," we usually mean that you can draw well, paint pictorially or write a beautiful story. Creating something or making something; that's what we often mean by creativity. We believe that creativity is much broader. It is also about creative thinking, problem solving and putting situations in a different perspective.
Encouraging Creative Thinking with Children
Have you ever noticed that children give answers you hadn't initially thought of yourself? They interpret every question incredibly open-ended! Creative, right? Creative thinking is one of the 21st century skills children are going to need in the job market and in society. Unfortunately, in many elementary schools they are still too often asked for one right answer, which hinders and unlearns creative thinking. But if education is "preparing children for tomorrow," then we need to train creative thinking rather than unlearn it, right? By looking for multiple answers, own answers and new answers, you train children's creative thinking skills.
Philosophizing and Creative Thinking
Creative thinking and philosophizing have a lot of overlap. By philosophizing, you look for possibilities and your own answers. You look for what it could be. This stimulates creative thinking skills. After the creative process, you can look critically at these answers. Another 21st century skill. To think creatively and critically, children need guts. They need the confidence to take their own thoughts seriously. Our vision of education does not mean that we should no longer teach children knowledge. However, we do stand for the broad education of children, in which creative thinking skills should be stimulated even more!
Did you know that you actually become twice as creative if you are convinced of it yourself?
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