Stimulating Challenges at „The Rhymes Workshop”
Stimulating Challenges at „The Rhymes Workshop”

Author(s): Lăcrămioara Ilciuc
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Creativity; children`s folklore; creative workshop
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to prove that we can use the children’s folklore as a source, a mean, but also a stimulating context. We would like to show that we can get the children involved into creative activities by using the children’s folklore which thus becomes a favorable field for stimulating challenges with regards to language and communication. We can stimulate creativity by using the children’s folklore and we consider that it gives/offers “the temperature” of creativity.17 children have been involved in creational activities which took place within “The Rhymes Workshop” for 2 years. We used a series of creative exercises using the children’s folklore. We then examined the linguistic procedures we found in these creations, we wrote down the elements of novelty. Oral and written creations from the children’s folklore contribute to the development of the verbal fluency, of flexibility. Students have found themselves into situations which demanded breaking the patterns, improvise, unusual associations of words. The creations they came up with have the dimension of originality. Therefore this work expresses the creative, unique experience of giving different forms to the fictional space of childhood.

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