Killing creativity are schools or parents to blame?

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Summary: If we're all born with creative potential, why do many children lose their inventive tendencies as they grow older? What role does organized education play? This program observes a group of 25 seven-year-olds and their families in order to study childhood creativity, why it frequently fades, and why it matters. Exploring the impact of school and whether or not it dampens the creative impulse, the program looks at ways adults can encourage and promote imagination, curiosity, and originality. In addition, the children take part in activities that reveal the precarious state of their natural ingenuity. They are asked to draw a man who could not possibly exist, to address Santa Claus through a live web link, and to examine, if they dare, a "monster in a box.

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Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2008], c2007.

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General Note:	Multi-User. Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on June 04, 2008. Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Formatted Contents Note:	Creativity at Home and School (4:01) -- Imagination and Anxiety (3:55) -- Children Distinguish Fiction from Reality (1:44) -- Children and Their Imaginations (4:04) -- Adult Creativity: Does It Carry Over to Their Children? (4:40) -- Creativity and Curiosity (1:34) -- Learning Disabilities and Creativity (4:20) -- Knowledge and Originality (1:25) -- Fathers and Sons: Supportive Relationships (4:21) -- Children Cope With Losses (1:59) -- When Imagination is Overwhelming (1:52) -- ADHD, Anxiety, and Safety (2:32) -- Creativity as Problem Solving (2:05) -- Creativity vs. Basic Education (3:32) -- Shyness and a Child's Imagination (5:05) -- Creativity and Stress (2:40) -- Importance of Friendship in a Child's Life (2:21) -- Parental Guidance and Children's Creativity (4:12)
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