Developing 4- to 6-year-old children's figural creativity using a doodle-book program

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-95

  Dziedziewicz, Dorota ^a   Oledzka, Dorota ^b   Karwowski, Maciej ^a  

^a THE MARIA GRZEGORZEWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b The Montessori Elementary School (SMART)   (Poland)

Author keywords

Creative imagination; Divergent thinking; Doodle books; Effectiveness of creativity development programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878632218     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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