Killing creativity. Are schools or parents to blame?
Description
If we're all born with creative potential, why do many children lose their inventive tendencies as they grow older? What role does organized education play? This program observes a group of 25 seven-year-olds and their families in order to study childhood creativity, why it frequently fades, and why it matters. Exploring the impact of school and whether or not it dampens the creative impulse, the program looks at ways adults can encourage and promote imagination, curiosity, and originality. In addition, the children take part in activities that reveal the precarious state of their natural ingenuity. They are asked to draw a man who could not possibly exist, to address Santa Claus through a live web link, and to examine, if they dare, a "monster in a box.
Runtime
60 min
Series
- Child of Our Time: A Year-by-Year Study of Childhood Development (12 Parts) (12)
- Child of Our Time: A Year-by-Year Study of Childhood Development (13 Parts) (13)
Subjects
- Learning, Psychology of (143)
- Self-realization (33)
- Education (938)
- Families (556)
- Personality development (77)
- Child development (475)
- Educational psychology (148)
- Adolescence (297)
- Adolescent psychology (124)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2008], c2007
Database
Films on Demand
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