Development оf Productive Imagination in Younger School-Age Children in The Context of Creative Skills

Abstract

Productive imagination is one of the components of the creative process. This article examines important issues related to the development of productive imagination in younger school-age children. The authors identify several approaches and directions through which work with a child's imagination occurs at this age. One of them is the concept of creativity by American psychologists of the mid-last century, such as J. Guilford and P. Torrance, which is defined by four parameters (flexibility, originality, elaboration, and productivity). Other approaches to the development of productive imagination in younger school-age children aim to reduce the strength of thinking inertia and foster critical thinking skills. These approaches are associated with a system of exercises for imagination development applied in the TRIZ pedagogy. Within the framework of this article, the authors present experimental data that trace the correlation between the growth of imagination's originality and specific development techniques.