Colaboração, um caminho para a criatividade infantil

Abstract

This qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study is part of a larger project, the ArtiCULan (2018-1-BE02-KA201-046844). The investigation has as central theme the creative experience process in groups of children, analyzing the course of positions, interactions, and collaborative behaviors during artistic workshops. The goal is to understand how and when collaborative processes occur simultaneously with children's creativity. Children between 8 and 10 years old from the 1st Cycle of Basic Education (CBE) from a school in the north of Portugal (N = 19) are the participants in this study. Two workshops recorded on video between the school years 2018/19 and 2019/20 were transcribed and analyzed according to the thematic analysis method. Subsequently, the transcripts were subdivided into fixed 20-second analysis units to graphically analyze positions, interactions, and the creative experience course. The results indicated that collaborative and creative processes occur in a non-linear increasing. The teacher, an adult facilitator, has a prominent role as an experience moderator, taking on the role of scaffolder at several times.