PRESCHOOL CHILDREN: EXPRESSION OF CREATIVITY

Creativity is considered to be an exceptional personal skill determining one’s success in the competitive world in the 21 st century. The phenomenon of creativity has been analyzed as the process and result of the creativity, a personal quality and a thinking skill during the most recent decades. Such variety of the attitudes towards creativity is typical to the pre-school education process as well. In order to recognize creativity in the early educational environment, it is necessary to have a broad and democratic conception in accordance with which each child has creative potential which must be developed by focusing more on the process and less on the assessment of the quality of the products. On the basis of the research outcomes, the article discloses the characteristics of preschool children's creative expression. The summary of empiric research proves that identifying the traits of creative child, the educators primarily emphasized their personal traits: self-confidence, imagination, self-dependence, and independence, versatile interests, artistic inclinations, and the ability to generate ideas and to implement them. Among other important traits, the educators named original thinking, flexibility, the ability to promptly respond to creative impulses and to find unconventional ways of problem solution. KEY WORDS: creativity, expression, prie-school children. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/ 10.15181//atee.v1i0.1320