Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the rarely undertaken topic of humour in the work of early childhood education pupils. In the first part of the article the author defines the categories of children’s creativity and humour and points out the similarities and connections between them. The author considers the cognitive theory of inconsistency resolution to be the most useful for the undertaken considerations. In the second part, the researcher presents the place of humour in children’s creativity analysed from four perspectives: personological (taking into account the characteristics of the creators), processual (analysing the course of the creative process), attributive (concerning the product) and ecological (analysing the social conditions of creativity). It was showed that although humour is perceived as both a form of creativity and an important generator of creative ideas, it is not appreciated by early childhood education teachers and rarely appears in the creativity of children at a younger school age.
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