CREATIVITY AND PRESCHOOL EDUCATION – IMPERATIVES TO AN HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD

The investment in pre-school education is due to the importance of this period in terms of acquiring knowledge, training skills and behavioral, affective, intellectual, social, etc. The variable of creativity, in the preschool period, has influences on the development of the personality of the child. Recent studies show that there are significant links between creativity and happiness, motor development, self-image formation. The implications of creativity on the development of the personality of the child have been followed over time by the researchers interested in finding explanations regarding the manifestation and stimulation of the creative process, still early. Creativity, seen as an action aimed at innovation, novelty can be seen as a way of adaptation. The present study aims to address the subject of creativity and its manifestation in the preschool period, highlighting important aspects regarding the process of developing the child's personality.