Collectivity in the creative art of toddlers

Abstract

This study was to explore toddler's interaction and competency of creativity in the classroom. 9two-year old toddlers in the classroom were observed and recorded for seven months. T observationsite was the Campus Children's center in the university of Vermont in America. The data wascategorized and analyzed. In the results and interpretations, toddlers break the art scheme transmitted byteachers and create new meanings and schemes of arts. Toddlers imitated peer's art behavior andtransformed, resulting in constructions of new artistic products. Different styles of teaching of twoteachers also were found to influence on children's creativity: Collectivity of creative art. Childrenbridged the different styles of interactions and create new process or activities of art: the collectivity ofcreative art.. These results imply that new vision of teacher's role must be investigated on toddler's arteducation.