(2017) Science and education, 12, 146-150. Odessa.

Lesia Starovoit,
PhD (Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences), Head of the Department of Art Disciplines of Preschool and Primary Education,
Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University, 32, Ostrozkoho Str., Vinnytsia, Ukraine

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROCESS OF PRACTICAL ART ACTIVITIES

The urgency of the study is explained by the need to implement a student-centered approach into the educational process to ensure junior school students’ creative development based on their individual characteristics, the formation of cognitive and communicative competencies. The paper aims to consider the dynamics of creative development of primary school students in the process of practical art activities, to distinguish psychological and pedagogical conditions of creative development of children in the process of practical art activities, to present a model of creative development and check its efficiency. In the experimental study students were tested using Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. The positive effect of bioenergetic, art and aesthetic, cognitive-informative, emotional-axiological components on the children’s creative development has been proved. It has been found that without special psychological and pedagogical conditions and purposeful mental influence, the creative development of students will be ineffective, because the changes that take place during the study according to the traditional methods, are mostly random and cannot guarantee effective creative development of junior pupils.

creativity, creative development, practical art activities, psychological features, primary school students.

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