창의성 개발 프로그램이 유아의 창의성 발달에 미치는 영향 = The Effects of the Creative Development Program on the creativity of Young Children

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to examine the effects of the Creative Development (CD) Program on young children`s creativity. The questions used for research were the following. 1. What is the effect of the CD Program on children`s creativity? 2. Are there any significant differences in the effects of the CD Program on children`s creativity according to their IQ? 3. Are there any significant differences according to their sex? The subjects of the study were 60 five year-old children, 30 of them from Y Kindergarten (the experimental treatment group) and 30 from G Kindergarten (the no-treatment control group) in the City of Kwang Ju. The CD Program was employed for a 12-week period and the data were collected using the General Creativity Test for Children (Chon, Kyoung-Won, 1995) and the Revised Korean Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (1995). The data were analyzed by ANCOVA, Crossed design of Two-way ANOVA with the SPSS program. The results of this study are summarized as follows : 1. The CD Program increased children`s creativity significantly : the effects appeared in all scales of creativity : originality, flexibility and imagination, and in all the areas : physical, linguistic and diagrammatic. 2. There was no significant difference in the effect of the CD Program on the children`s creativity according to their IQ or sex. In conclusion, the CD Program proved to be an effective approach for the creative development in five year-old Kindergarten children.