Learning from "Baby Languages"
Look at Yoda vs. Piaget: Creativity and Recipes by J.K.Holland
This article was printed in the publication, ” Inside Pre-K.” The author, J.K. Holland, is a master teacher who is also a professional artist.
J. K. Holland states that sometimes he sees his role as Yoda for the pre-k set. “Trust yourself, Luke. Use your creativity.” He goes on to discuss the difficulties that discourage young children from using their natural creativity. These include put-downs by friends so the children think: ” I want to fit in with my friends and none of them are creative, I should probably not be creative either.”
Holland references Piaget, who differentiated between the pre-operational stage of child development and the later stage of concrete operations. He writes that a child who sees 4 apples as only 4 apples is denying the fact that 4 apples can be cut in half and…
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