Document Type : Research Paper
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student of kish international campus of University of Tehran
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, School of Fine Arts, University of Tehran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Technical and Engineering Faculty, Zanjan University
10.22059/jfaup.2024.367697.672917
Abstract
The development of creativity is considered in educational psychology and educational psychology. This issue is important in childhood due to the development of personality and experiences of person. Creativity has stages, components and elements that occur in the creative process. Factors affecting creativity are divided into two categories, personal category and environmental category that can be named as internal category and external category. This issue has examined the physical elements of the environment among the external factors. Based on the process of cognitive development, children's perception becomes practical from the age of 6 years old and is more influenced by the environment. During this period (from 6 years old), children spend most of their time in educational spaces. according to this, the aim of the present research is first to identify the physical elements that are effective on the creative process of children aged 6 years old to 11 years old in educational spaces, and in the following and in second step, correlation of physical elements with the components of creativity development is on the agenda.
The present research method is a mixed method and combination of qualitative research and quantitative research that in the section of theoretical views and review of previous studies and researches, qualitative method and analytical strategy are used. In this part information is collected from the library technique with the aim of discovering physical components and creativity indicators through content analysis among research documents and records that have been done. In order to measure the relationship between physical elements and creativity indicators, a quantitative method using descriptive strategy and correlation technique has been used in quantitative part of this research. The required data for analysis of research were collected by the researcher-made questionnaire because lack of standard questionnaire in this field, from the selected statistical population among teachers of children with the age of 6 years old to 11 years old in public schools, non-profit schools and private educational centers (self-sufficient) in Zanjan city. The collected data from previous part of issue has been analyzed with the help of SPSS22 software and Amos24 software with the method of factor analysis and method of path analysis.
The obtained results showed the existence of a significant relationship between the environmental components and the indicators of “fluidity”, “expansion” and “exploration” as indicators of creativity, and regarding the degree of influence, the component of “space design to create different feelings” has the greatest impact on creativity as the first grade. After that, the indicators of “diversity in open spaces” in second grade, “package, shape and geometry of space and architecture” in third grade, “using various materials and colors in space” in fourth grade, “connection with open spaces and green spaces” in fifth grade, “using different furniture and different arrangements of furniture” in sixth grade, “variety of use and application of space” in seventh grade and “interaction between children and participation of children” in eighth grade, have the greatest impact on creativity.
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