Bibliographic citations
Cuculiza, A., (2017). “For a Seed to be Born” : Exploring the Links between Emotions and Everyday Creativity in Elementary Teachers’ Classrooms in Peru [Tesis, McGill University]. http://renati.sunedu.gob.pe/handle/sunedu/952694
Cuculiza, A., “For a Seed to be Born” : Exploring the Links between Emotions and Everyday Creativity in Elementary Teachers’ Classrooms in Peru [Tesis]. CA: McGill University; 2017. http://renati.sunedu.gob.pe/handle/sunedu/952694
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title = "“For a Seed to be Born” : Exploring the Links between Emotions and Everyday Creativity in Elementary Teachers’ Classrooms in Peru",
author = "Cuculiza Brunke, Annemarie",
publisher = "McGill University",
year = "2017"
}
This qualitative study explored the links between emotions and everyday creativity in elementary teachers’ practice in Lima, Peru. Although extensive research has been conducted on creativity, little investigation has been developed for understanding creativity from the vantage point of practicing teachers. The purpose of this study was to help bridge the distance between creativity scholars and educators, in favor of collaborative research. Another objective was to explore if the workshop’s approach to emotional creativity could enhance teachers’ confidence in their capacities for nurturing the emotional realm of their students, while also reducing the perceived barriers to creativity in the educational setting. The study followed an arts-informed participatory workshop approach, framed by phenomenology and memory work. Three elementary school teachers participated in the workshop: Heart Swirl, Seed, Super Keka. The participants created their own pseudonyms and symbol to represent themselves. The research questions were: What sort of emotions do teachers find in their classrooms? What type of emotional memories do teachers hold from their own schooling experience, and in what ways do these influence their pedagogy? What elements lie at the heart of the creative teaching process? In what ways can they enhance the emotional creativity of their students? Collage inquiry was used to explore these issues. James Averill’s theory of Emotional Creativity –a social constructivist everyday creativity perspective– was utilized as a heuristic device to explore different dimensions of the link between emotions and creativity in teachers practice. Thematic analysis was used to investigate the underlying themes that facilitated the development of emotional creativity in the participants. A creative synthesis of the experience was created in the form of poetic inquiry and the composition of a musical piece to accompany the poem. This study suggests that collaborative research that focuses on the subjective experience of practicing teachers might be most productive for the development of a pedagogy that fosters emotional wellbeing, creativity and the empowerment of teachers. It also proposes that memory-work is a powerful path to develop teachers’ consciousness, which is necessary to exercise an emotionally-enhancing pedagogy, one that will make children grow up into loving, secure, autonomous and ethical adults. It suggests that a creative approach to consciousness allows educators to develop pedagogical responsibility; understood as the ability to respond in tactful ways to the needs of each particular child contextually; and that this process is as beneficial for the child as it is for the educator. A teacher who engages in creative self-work will nurture children in their self-discovery path, while at the same time, finding his or her own emotional freedom.
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Cuculiza_Brunke.pdf | Tesis | 1.64 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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