幼兒藝術教育及創意發展

Creativity has been identified as a generic skill to be nurtured in students of all levels starting from kindergartens, primary schools, and secondary schools in various learning areas, including the Arts. The paper will report 2 recent studies on the effectiveness of an artists-in-residence project in 7 kindergartens funded by the Arts Development Council and a drama-in-education project in 26 kindergartens funded by the Quality Education Fund. The assessment tools vary from consensual assessment in children’s story telling, standardized assessment on children’s creative potentials and teacher observation in children’s creativity, dramatics and communicative characteristics. Results indicated that significant gains were found in children’s verbal and figural creativity as well as teachers’ observations. The collaboration between artists and teachers is crucial to the successful implementation of arts education and creativity education in Hong Kong. Limitations and implications will also be discussed.