Instructive-Educational Strategies of Stimulating Creativity at the Small School

Abstract

Among the educational objectives, the stimulation of imagination and creativity must be abasic one, along with the education of thought. In the content of education, the general culture must befurther promoted, this favoring creativity. Programs must provide special lessons for developingcreative imagination. The extracurricular activity offers many opportunities for cultivating theimagination. Meetings with students of scientists and art can be initiated in the student circles who cantalk about their work. Visiting exhibitions, excursions broaden the horizon and represent endlesssources of questions. Creative thinking needs a rich material to operate with and to facilitategeneralization. But it is not just the accumulation of knowledge, but especially their systematization,the acquisition of the internal structure of knowledge, the understanding of the mutual relations ofobjects and phenomena. Children’s creativity is characterized above all by the intellectual, affective,motivational relationship that the subject brings in his action through his personal efforts. Each childgradually evolves into a specific individual structure of his or her creative potential, which largelydelimits their personality