Nurturing Creativity: An Essential Mindset for Young Children's Learning - Softcover

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Rebecca Isbell is an early childhood consultant and professor emerita of early childhood education at East Tennessee State University. She has authored numerous books and articles and presents on topics related to young children, creative thinking, storytelling, and the creative arts.

Sonia Akiko Yoshizawa is a PhD fellow in early childhood education at East Tennessee State University. A coauthor of STEM Learning with Young Children: Inquiry Teaching with Ramps and Pathways, she conducts inquiry-based STEM trainings and presentations for teachers.

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During the early years, young children are continually demonstrating their amazing creative abilities (Kelley & Kelley 2013). Throughout their day, they form new, neverbefore- heard words, design towering structures as symbols of their world, compose musical lyrics to accompany their activities, create fanciful stories where they decide what happens, and solve challenging problems. This is a grand period for young creative thinkers! But can they maintain this amazing creative thinking throughout their lifetime? As adults, they will need to be innovative in their work environment and become creative collaborators who can solve global problems; however, between the early years and adulthood, many children become less confident in their creative abilities and more hesitant to try new things (Kelley & Kelley 2013). During this journey, will they find a passion that will nurture their creative thinking? Let us investigate together how we can nurture young children’s creative confidence so they can maintain these remarkable abilities now and throughout their lives.