Creativity Of Young People Research Articles

Creativity Among Adolescents and Emerging Adults in the Post-pandemic Era: A Review of the Role of the School and University System

Abstract This literature review, focusing on creativity in the time of the pandemic and post-pandemic, aims to explore the role of creativity in young people’s well-being through the education and university system. The article starts from a redefinition of creativity in the light of a dynamic and interactionist view between person, environment and task as proposed by contemporary studies. A major focus is on the role that creativity has played in well-being in the pandemic and post-pandemic period, especially for vulnerable populations such as adolescents and emerging adults. The article also focuses on the developmental tasks of adolescence and emerging adulthood, which make them particularly appropriate times for developing and promoting creativity. Finally, the review analyzes the contribution and support that schools offer young people during the pandemic. What resources and obstacles still stand in the way of the education system fostering creativity in adolescents and young adults today? The review aims to draw attention to the debated topic of creativity in education systems. Schools and universities can continue to support young people in the post-pandemic era by helping them to play an active role in society using their creative potential.

Non-print Periodicals in the Wroblewski Library: what does the Collection Tell us about the History of Publishing in Lithuania?

In Lithuania, non-print periodicals have been of interest to scholars, librarians, and local historians for over a hundred years. To understand the phenomenon of non-print periodicals in Lithuania, its place in the increasing national information flow, and the history of state publishing, it is necessary to gather as extensive a base of these periodical sources as possible and know the main collections. This article aims to present the study of the non-print periodicals collection stored in the Manuscripts Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences from the perspective of book science and reveal its informativeness as a whole for the history of Lithuanian publishing. The research object became all the identified non-print periodical publications collected into a conditional collection regardless of chronological frameworks, language, writing system, font, or publishing geographic location. Currently, the Manuscripts Department has recorded as many as 154 titles of small newspapers. To achieve the goal, first, historiography dedicated to non-print periodicals in Lithuania and the Wroblewski Library will be discussed, the history of object collection in the library will be determined, and the formed collection will be analysed in chronological, geographical, linguistic, typological, and genre aspects. The study of the information recorded in the publications’ metrics and texts provided insights into the processes of non-print publishing and allowed for comparisons with the processes of professional periodicals publishing. The history of the collection led to another multilingual collection of non-print periodicals covering the period between the late 19th century to 1946 in the Manuscripts Department of the Wroblewski Library, different in composition from the collection in the Rare Books and Old Periodicals Department. The analysis of the collection’s composition by designated aspects confirms the linguistic, genre, and typological diversity of publications that existed in Lithuania. The study allows us to state that although published in small volumes, non-print periodicals approached professional ones and contributed to the national information flow, filling informational and content gaps. They became a space for young creators to unfold and demonstrate practical knowledge, showcasing the potential of non-print periodicals publishing activities, which nurtured more than one professional press figure in Lithuania. The objects of the collection testify to the diversity of periodical publishing practices, and social groups involved in the publishing processes, and reveal the changing society and its aspirations. The collection gathered for the study provides new, unused information for scientific research on the reading and creativity of young people and soldiers, revealing their areas of interest. The collection’s objects become a relevant source for research on language, art history, gender, issues of the reuse of works, etc.

ANALISIS FRAMING PEMBERITAAN CITAYAM FASHION WEEK

Research Objectives: Revealing the framing carried out by two online media, namely Republika.co.id and Kompas.com in viewing the activities of implementing Citayam fashion Week. Reserch Methodology: Qualitative methods. Research Results: Reporting on Citayam Fashion Week on two online media Republika.co.id and Kompas.com July 2022 edition. In their presentation, the two media have differences in their framing processes, this can be seen based on the results of framing analysis. The method used in analyzing the contents of the media text uses the theory of Robert N. Entman. Entman sees framing in two dimensions: selection of issues and emphasizing or highlighting certain aspects of the issue. These two factors can sharpen news framing through the process of selecting issues that are worthy of being displayed and emphasizing the content of the news. According to Entman, framing can be done in four ways: Problem Identifications, Causal Interpretation, Moral Evaluation, Treatment Recommendation. Based on Entaman’s theory in looking at the framing of the two media, the results of the framing on the two media will be known. Conclusion: Republika.co.id, which is an Indonesian Muslim medium, tends not to support CFW activities. This can be seen from the various news reports published by Republika.co.id which highlight the criticism of the MUI leadership, Muhammadiyah central leadership where they feel that CFW activities have had a negative impact for the younger generation. As for Kompas.com, it displays the news by supporting CFW activities. This can be seen from some reports stating that CFW is the creativity of young people.

Arts projects bring young people wellbeing boost

Post-pandemic initiative aims to improve community health and wellbeing through artist-led activities that develop children and young people's creativity

Persepsi Dan Preferensi Pengunjung terhadap Aplikasi Desain Youth Park Denpasar

Visitors' Perceptions and Preferences on the Denpasar Youth Park Design Application. Youth ParkDenpasar is one of the parks located in Denpasar which was created to flow the ideas and creativity of youngpeople in Denpasar. The construction of Youth Park Denpasar which has facilities that support several activitiesamong young people, it is necessary to have a design application or application of a good function accordingto the tastes and trends of today's youth, where an attractive appearance can affect the level of visitors to YouthPark Denpasar. In order to improve the appearance of Youth Park Denpasar, there is a need for research onthe perceptions and preferences of park visitors. This study aims to identify the perceptions and preferencesof visitors to the youth park and make recommendations as a solution. The study used a survey method withdata collection techniques in the form of observation, interviews, literature study, and questionnaires, thatcollected 30 copies for 30 respondents. The visitor's perception of the Denpasar Youth Park design applicationshowed that most of them said it was good. Visitors' preferences for the Denpasar Youth Park designapplication show that the form of parking, lighting and still need to be improved. Visitors' perceptions andpreferences of the Denpasar Youth Park design application are used as information in the future developmentof Youth Park Denpasar or as a reference for making other parks, so that Youth Park Denpasar can be usedoptimally and comfortably according to visitors.

Meningkatkan Kreativitas Generasi Muda Pematang Siantar Dengan Workshop Menjadi Konten Kreator Di Media Sosial

Content creator training conducted by the Indonesian Business Polytechnic in collaboration with the Simarmata Young Generation to increase young people's creativity. This activity aims to increase young people's knowledge of using social media to get various benefits. Activities are carried out in workshops accompanied by practices using Instagram and TikTok media as content media. Seventy youth participants from Pematang Siantar attended the action. The training continued enthusiastically because the speaker is an activist content creator on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. After the activity, an activity survey showed that 98% of the participants were very interested in the material presented and gained new knowledge about using social media for more positive things.

Are STEM Students Creative Thinkers?

Scholarly research has increasingly examined the role of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, and that of creativity as a transversal skill. However, far fewer studies have investigated the relationship between the two, particularly in secondary-school contexts, and they have obtained inconsistent results. This paper contributes to the literature by asking: To what extent is studying STEM associated with higher levels of creativity in a secondary-school context? The study utilises a pre-existing dataset gathered in Malta (EU) from some 400 students aged between 11 and 16 years old. It yields information on both the engagement in STEM (measured by exposure to STEM chosen by students as optional subjects, and the enjoyment of STEM considered by students to be their favourite subjects), as well as creativity levels (measured by Divergent Thinking performance on Alternate Uses Tests). Correlation analysis revealed a strong positive link between the two phenomena, lending support to the notion that STEM students tend to be more creative than other students. Using regression analysis, a model is estimated to identify the possible effects of engaging in STEM subjects on creativity, once the other co-determinants of creativity are controlled. The results indicate that both the exposure to STEM subject/s and enjoyment thereof significantly and positively predict creativity, even after controlling for the other possible determinants of creativity (such as age, gender, parental education, and participation in creative activities). These findings offer encouraging insights into 21st century education and for curriculum development as they suggest that, in addition to having value in their own right, STEM subjects can contribute to the development of creativity in young people.

Decision-making style and emotional creativity in young people who have had COVID-19 infection

INTRODUCTION: The period of the current COVID-19 pandemic is associated with a prolonged situation of uncertainty; in the preference of styles and strategies for overcoming the intellectual and personal potential of a person is presented in the unity of the processes of cognitive evaluation, experience and choice of ways to solve a problem (stressful) situation.OBJECTIVE: To study the interrelationships of decision-making style as a reflection of individual differences in coping with uncertainty and emotional creativity as a factor of self-realization in young people who have had COVID19 infection.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We examined 100 convalescents aged 18.2±2.25 years, including 50 men (Group M) and 50 women (Group G) (the age difference between the groups is not significant). The main transferred clinical forms of COVID-19 infection were the inapparent form — 42.0% (group M — 32 people, group G — 10 people), acute respiratory viral infection — 56.0% (group M — 17 people, group G — 39 people) according to the Russian versions of the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire (MDMQ) and the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI).RESULTS: In both groups of examined individuals after COVID-19 infection with all clinical forms of the disease, the strategy of «vigilance», considered as productive, is of the greatest importance in the decision-making process; unproductive strategies are not expressed, which is important for the subsequent medical and psychological support of convalescents.DISCUSSION: In both groups of examined individuals after suffering COVID-19 infection in all clinical forms of the disease, the «vigilance» strategy, considered as productive, is of the greatest importance in the decision-making process; unproductive strategies are not expressed, which is important for the subsequent medical and psychological support of convalescents. It is noted that the interaction between the factors of emotional creativity is expressed not only in an increase in creativity when high values coincide on two or more faces, but also in the fact that low values of one component can be compensated by high values of another.CONCLUSION: It is noted that the interaction between the factors of emotional creativity is expressed not only in an increase in creativity when high values coincide on two or more sides, but also in the fact that low values of one component can be compensated by high values of the other.

Academic integrity as a component of the academic culture of participants in the educational and scientific process

The article substantiates that the topic of academic integrity has gained increased relevance in the educational and scientific environment in the XXI century. Usually when any phenomenon is so actively discussed in the society we have not only superficial and visible to everyone reasons, but deep and latent ones hidden from the average eye. Plagiarism is an obvious superficial problem and deep problems include the fact that the causes that lead to such a phenomenon are difficult to eradicate, they lie in culture, values, habits, and traditions. In modern conditions the educational process reaches a new quality level determined by the features of the information society. New communications between subjects, a new style of management of educational institutions, new technologies for improving the quality of education, including the formation of academic integrity culture must be formed. The era of knowledge transmission is a thing of the past. Education today aims to create for the realization of the potential of each person, to contribute to the constant process of improvement and self-education, and the development of individual creativity. The phenomenon of creativity is based on developed thinking, imagination, intuition, the results of which are embodied in various practices. It is thanks that The formation of competences is possible due to the development of creative abilities, which allow individuals to interact with the modern world constructively and responsibly and to produce their own new product. It has been proven that the problem of academic integrity will not be of such an urgent nature if the creativity of young people is developed, since the applicants will not aim to compile the material, borrow it and engage in academic fraud. The formation of academic integrity as a component of academic culture should be implemented comprehensively at several levels (civilizational, national, institutional, individual) and this process should be planned and systematic

In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail

ABSTRACT In this exchange, the authors each address five questions about creativity, and then provide a final synthesizing response. The five questions they address are: (1) What is creativity? Are there different processes, types, or kinds of creativity, and if so, what are they? (2) What are the major obstacles to people thinking and acting creatively? (3) Do you believe that creativity is intrinsically positive? Why or why not? (4) What are the main ways in which schools and parents should develop creativity in young people? (5) Can creativity be measured? If so, how should creativity be measured, and under what kinds of circumstances? Their answers highlight both similarities and differences in their points of view on creativity as a phenomenon and approaches to theorizing about it, studying it, teaching for it, and measuring it.

Predictors of creativity in young people: Using frequentist and Bayesian approaches in estimating the importance of individual and contextual factors.

© 2020 American Psychological Association. The development of creativity in young children has been studied extensively, but relatively few studies have examined the period of adolescence and emerging adulthood in relation to creative potential. The present study uses a combination of frequentist and Bayesian analyses to evaluate the impact of individual factors (e.g., IQ) and contextual factors (e.g., pursuit of creative hobbies) on creative ideation in three cohorts of young people aged 14-20 years. Measures of divergent thinking, specifically the Alternate Uses Task (AUT) and the Overcoming Knowledge Constraints Task, were used to this end. Openness to aesthetic and imaginative experience was the strongest predictor of creative potential for the 3 AUT measures. Moreover, Bayesian hypothesis testing revealed that the best predictive model for AUT ideational fluency and AUT overall originality was one that included only Openness, whereas the best predictive model for AUT peak originality, or the propensity to generate highly original responses, included Openness, as well as IQ and Engagement in Creative Hobbies. No group differences in creative potential were found between the three age cohorts (aged 14-15, 16-17, and 18-20). The study not only confirms the importance of openness to aesthetic and imaginative experience as a predictor of creative potential in adolescents and young adults, but also indicates the necessity to consider the combined and differentiated impact of individual and contextual factors in different facets of creative ideation.

Pro/Con: Are Schools Limiting the Development of Creativity

Due to its comprehensiveness and extreme complexity, the phenomenon of creativity has always attracted the attention of researchers, but only with the rapid development of science, technique, and technology, more intensive studies of this phenomenon began in the early 1990s. The importance of creativity is pointed out by numerous theorists, emphasizing the importance of this phenomenon on an individual, social and global level. Creativity plays a major role in creating individual meaningful works that contribute to wider social progress. The rapid progress of science and technology requires new and unusual reactions, and consequently, modern society is looking for young inspiring, talented, inspired, creative and innovative people who will be able to respond to the challenges they face every day. Education plays a key role in preparing them for life in modern society, but critics of modern education question the role of the school in encouraging and developing creativity. On the one hand, the school is an institution that cultivates creativity and creative activities, but on the other hand, as many say, the school kills and suffocates everything that young people would have and could show. This paper discusses the concept of creativity, as well as the role of education, school, and teachers in encouraging and awakening creativity in young people. The analysis of relevant and recent pedagogical literature seeks to answer the question of whether and in what way the school is limiting the development of creativity, what are the obstacles and blockers of creativity in school, and how to eliminate them.

Stealth assessment of creativity in a physics video game

Creativity has been of research interest to psychologists dating back many decades, and is currently recognized as one of the essential skills needed to succeed in our complex, interconnected world. One medium that has affordances to assess and support creativity in young people is video games. In this paper, we briefly discuss the literature on video games and creativity and provide an example of current work being done relative to measuring creativity in the context of a game called Physics Playground using stealth assessment. To validate the stealth assessment of creativity, we conducted a one-group pretest-posttest study with 167 8th and 9th graders from a K-12 school in Florida. Results suggest that our stealth assessment of creativity is valid (i.e., our stealth assessment estimate significantly correlated with our external performance-based measures of creativity). Additional analyses revealed that creativity (i.e., estimated using our stealth assessment of creativity) significantly predicts in-game performance (e.g., number of levels solved), game enjoyment, and learning of physics content. We conclude with a discussion of future directions in this line of creativity research.

Supplemental Material for Predictors of Creativity in Young People: Using Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches in Estimating the Importance of Individual and Contextual Factors

Supplemental Material for Predictors of Creativity in Young People: Using Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches in Estimating the Importance of Individual and Contextual Factors

From clothing to culinary industries: creativity in the making of place

Creative clusters in many Western and Asian cities are predominantly established through policy-making and the involvement of government and private institutions. This paper investigates another way creative industries emerge, whereby individual initiatives of creative young people transform a colonial residential quarter into creative clusters. The creativity of young people has brought life and diversity to a mono-functional urban area by seizing new opportunities for small-scale business practices. The paper is based on a field survey and mapping of 80 clothing and culinary industries at Trunojoyo quarter in Bandung, Indonesia, that contributed to the nomination of Bandung as UNESCO City of Design in 2015. The young people of Bandung exhibit tactical strategies in the emergence of creative clusters and exercise informal processes and social networks as catalysts for growing creative industries. They reveal how youthful energy and creativity within everyday life brings about something that is rational and practical in creating an experiential place and making an historical quarter into a place of high economic performance.

Entrepreneurship and Adolescents

Abstract This work studied the entrepreneurial aspirations of 3,987 adolescents regarding self-employment and the influence of gender, age, nationality, type of school, location of the school, educational level and performance. The Logit model is used to analyze the data. The results indicate that the pupils’ aspirations to be self-employed increase in the case of foreigners, of studying in a state school, of having a lower educational level and of demonstrating a low academic performance. The results were not statistically significant for the gender and age variables. The curriculum and guidance programmes need to promote a spirit of entrepreneurship and creativity in young people

Igniting young people's creativity: the Sydney Story Factory

ABSTRACTThis article provides an insight into the work of the Sydney Story Factory, a creative writing centre for young people. Based on an interview with the centre's Storyteller-in-Chief, it shows how the Sydney Story Factory seeks to maximise the attention given to each student's creative output. In the article it is argued that the innovative approaches employed at this centre can serve as an example of reforms that might need to be introduced in the educational system and teacher education and development.

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The realities of researching alongside virtual youth in late modernity creative practices and activity theory

Young people's use and understanding of the Internet is still under-researched. We argue that researching alongside young people in technological settings (a virtual world on the Internet in this paper) is a complicated nexus of conceptual, methodological and theoretical challenges. We argue that these are in dialectical, and sometimes incoherent, relationships with the realities of research processes and young people's lived experiences with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The Economic and Social Research Council/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESRC/EPSRC)-funded Inter-Life Project developed a ‘Virtual Research Community’ in Second Life™ to investigate how young people can work creatively to develop their own agency and subjectivities. We reflect on these challenges as they articulated with the ‘Inter-Life’ Project's aims. They include the need for more empirical evidence of the realities of young people's lives with ICTs, and for re-theorisation of their subjectivities in ICT settings. We interrogate the challenges of participatory research in such settings and the role of creative practices and virtual spaces in finding a voice and being a participatory researcher. In the second part, we illustrate the realities of researching in a virtual world through the lived experience of young people who worked with us. We also explore how activity theory (AT) might assist in the methodological and analytical work of researching young people's creativity in a virtual world.

Empowering Creativity in Young People Through Mobile Learning

This paper investigates the potential of mobile learning for creativity in and out of school with a focus on media production. In doing so it attempts to move beyond binary choices around the nature of creativity (e.g., individual vs social) and the role of technologies for creative learning. To this end, it presents the literature on how creativity has been conceptualized, especially in education, and provides the theoretical underpinnings that supported the study by referring to the Vygotskyan perspective of creativity as a transformative process of culture and the self. It then moves to a description of three experiences addressing young people and entailing the creation of digital artifacts through mobile devices. It also presents some results, exploring learners’ and teachers’ perspectives and showing how mobile devices serve as cultural resources that young people use for meaning making and transforming themselves. The paper concludes with some recommendations for future research.