Creativity, Students, and Art Education: An Action Research Project on How Learner-Directed Art Education Affects students' Creativity (CSAE)
Open AccessAbstractCreativity, Students, and Art Education: An Action Research Project on How Learner-Directed Art Education Affects Students’ Creativity Creativity, Students, and Art Education: An Action Research Project on How Learner-Directed Art Education Affects students' Creativity (CSAE) is action research conducted during a student teaching internship. CSAE uses an observable definition for creativity that includes 37 creative characteristic to find out how learner-directed art education (LDAE) affects students’ creativity. CSAE uses aggregate, summary, and composite form data from triangulated assessments and participant observation to identify, observe, and document students’ creative behaviors. CSAE investigates the notion that LDAE helps students to become lifelong learners because students are more creative when they are motivated by their ability to recognize when something is missing, develop, shape, and adopt ideas about how to provide what is missing, and reflect on their results. To answer the primary and secondary research questions, CSAE data is analyzed using three themes, 1) Verbal Creativity, students’ ability to demonstrate creativity verbally; 2) Visual Creativity, students’ ability to demonstrate creativity visually; and 3) Creative Language, students’ ability to communicate appropriate creative behaviors for new, unrelated, and dynamic situations. CSAE data shows how LDAE provides an environment that encourages verbal creativity, visual creativity, and creative language through effective questioning, problem-based, and hands-on, active learning activities that allow teachers to assess development of students’ creative behaviors.
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