Criatividade: uma análise do desenho infantil e suas contribuições para a aprendizagem

Abstract

Most often the term creativity is used to describe certain behaviors of the individual or social group, and most routinely associated with artistic expression and technological innovation, or even a specific skill present in selected individuals, as a gift. However, analyzing the creativity allows us to understand the factors that influence the emergence of creative behaviors. Thus, some definitions and criteria associated mechanisms are presented to the causes and outcomes of creativity and creative behavior. Some models, however, explain the composition of creativity as a construct formed by several factors: cognitive, motivational, social and personality that underlie the creative process, which is, The Componential Model of Creativity. Thus, the product of creativity is to generate new and often innovative productions, as well as spontaneous. This parameter fits the children's drawing, because the lines of this graphical representation, rests meanings and elaborations many creative productions. Faced with this, the present study aimed to analyze the children's creativity from the design contributions to learning. So, conducted a qualitative field research with observation technique and freehand drawing. The subjects were three children aged 6 and 7 years old in the city of João Pessoa -PB. The results of the children's productions have corroborated with the literature that addressed the drawing as a rich element of meaning of childhood.