REFLECTION OF CREATIVITY: THE EXPERIENCE OF STUDYING AND DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article substantiates the relevance of studying and developing the creativity reflection, which determines the perspective of the development of creative potential in the process of ontogenesis and which is the “triggering mechanism” of all self-processes of personality and a condition for successful self-realisation of personality in the future. The authors give a working definition of the “reflection of creativity” concept as a meta-ability to realise creative self-processes of personality: self-exploration, self-reconstruction, self-design and self-creation, awareness of creative achievements and individual characteristics of the “Creative Self”. The authors developed a diagnostic programme and a model of creativity reflection. The ascertaining, transforming and control stages of the study were implemented in a group of younger schoolchildren. Based on the results of the ascertaining experiment, the authors developed a transformative experiment, which is a developmental programme. Based on the empirical research, the authors determine the age specificity and dynamics of development, the correlation structure of significant indicators of creativity reflection, the features of the dynamic and contradictory process of formation of creativity reflection that contribute to the development of younger schoolchildren as subjects of creative activity.