The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teachers's direction pattern
on the creativity of young children, in more specifically, was to determine the effect of
the fluency direction and uniqueness direction on the number of outcomes and the
amount of creativity represented in outcome.
The subjects of this study were a total of 96 children with 49 from two classes for
four years old and 47 from two classes for five years old attending the S kindergarten
located in Yangsan city. The inventory used in this study was figure completion task in
which partial figures such as circle, dotted line, and oblique line are presented to young
children and asked them to complete a picture and determine its title freely. The number
of outcomes produced by young children were measured and their creativity were
evaluated.
The result of analysis of the effect of fluency direction and uniqueness direction on
the number of outcome showed that the fluency direction has induced more responses
compared to uniqueness one, and that the number produced by children of four years
old were higher than that by children of five years old. There was no difference in the
number of outcomes between direction type in group of four years old, whereas for the
group of five years old, the number of outcomes produced by uniqueness direction was
higher than it by fluency direction. The result of analysis of the number of outcomes
produced from each figure type showed that the number of outcomes produced from
dotted line was higher than that from other two figure types.
The result of analysis of the effect of the both types on the creativity score showed
that the score from the uniqueness direction was higher than that from fluency one, and
that the level of creativity induced by direction type was higher in group of four years
old compared to group of five years old. Considering both the number of outcomes and
th creativity represented in them, the uniqueness direction induced more creativity,
though the number of outcomes was higher. The fact that the creativity score from
dotted line was higher than that from other types of figure indicates that the stimulation
by dotted line may be useful in creativity enhanced teaching activities.