摘要：During children’s symbolic play many cognitive,emotional and social processes take place.A child develops her potential through symbolic play,and creativity is one such potential.Our research focused on investigating the relationship between creativity in early childhood and physical representation of play material in the context of symbolic play.59 children were included in the study,aged from five to six years.We assessed their creativity before and after ten play-sessions using the Test for Creative Thinking TCT-DP.Each child played individually with one of six types of play material that varied with respect to three characteristics: structure,realism,and complexity.We hypothesized that creativity would increase for all types of play material but that it would not increase evenly across play materials.Due to statistically insignificant differences in creativity measures over time,we could not validate these hypotheses.We did however find a small increase in creativity for a group that played with low-structured,low-realism and low-complexity play material.This result is consistent with other similar research in the field.
其他摘要：Ker se v simbolni igri odvijajo številni razvojni procesi na spoznavnem,čustvenem in socialnem področju,naj bi bila prav simbolna igra prostor,kjer otrok razvija svoje potenciale,med drugim tudi ustvarjalnost.Namen raziskave je bil proučiti odnos med ustvarjalnostjo otroka v zgodnjem otroštvu in različnimi vrstami igralnega materiala z vidika simbolne igre.59 otrok,starih med pet in šest let,je pred pričetkom in po končani deseti igralni seansi izpolnilo Preizkus ustvarjalnega mišljenja TCT-DP.Med igralnimi seansami se je vsak otrok samostojno igral z eno od šestih vrst igrač,ki so se med seboj razlikovale v treh dimenzijah: strukturiranosti,realističnosti in kompleksnosti.Pričakovali smo,da se bo mera ustvarjalnosti zvišala pri vseh otrocih,vendar različno glede na vrsto igralnega materiala,s katerim so se otroci igrali.Rezultati so pokazali,da razlike v meri ustvarjalnosti med obema merjenjema niso bile statistično pomembne,zato ne moremo sklepati,da je različen igralni material pomembno prispeval k razliki v meri ustvarjalnosti,pokazal pa se je majhen porast mere ustvarjalnosti pri skupini otrok,ki je imela v igralnih seansah na voljo nizko strukturiran,nizko realističen in nizko kompleksen igralni material,kar je podobno,kot kažejo izsledki nekaterih drugih,primerljivih raziskav.
