Oficina de criatividade com crianças no contexto escolar: processo de mediação a partir da obra “Imaginação e criatividade na infância”

Abstract

This research work aimed to investigate the development of creativity in children, based on the implementation of a creativity workshop, with the perception of images being a stimulus for imaginative and creative processes, having as a theoretical basis the book “Imaginação e Criatividade na Childhood”, by Vygotsky. Methodologically, it constitutes a pedagogical intervention research, Damiani (2013), organized in the model of Creativity Workshops according to Salmerón (2020). The research involved the participation of 16 students from the Ministro Rubem Carlos Ludwig Municipal Elementary School, in the city of Canoas, attending the same class of the 4th year of Elementary School. The instruments for data collection were observation and document analysis. The collected data were worked through discursive textual analysis, according to the proposal of Moraes (2003). The theoretical framework brought reflections on creativity in the contemporary context, the history of psychology's interest in the construct of creativity throughout the 20th century, Vygotsky's elaborations on the subject, especially in the book "Imagination and Creativity in Childhood", the articulation between this study and other productions by Vygotsky such as “Pedagogical Psychology” and “Psychology of Art”. The importance of creativity in the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC, 2017) and the implications of this document as an important justification for the study of creativity were also discussed. The concept of mediation, especially that found in Vigotski (1996), Sforni (2008) and Wertsch (2007) was also related to the proposal of pedagogical intervention through creativity workshops. The research findings were organized into three categories: "Perceptions of the Image", "Teacher's Mediating Action" and "Creativity and Textual Production". The results indicated that the creativity workshops developed contributed to the development of creativity in the factors of creative elaboration and fluency of creation.