Date of Award
6-2019
Document Type
Capstone Project
Disciplines
Global Affairs
Degree Name
Master of Liberal Studies
Department
Global Affairs
Advisor
Arianna Nowakowski, Ph.D.
Keywords
Creativity, Teaching, Self-efficacy, Symmetry, Visuospatial, Memory
Abstract
Creativity is defined as the ability to make new things or think of new ideas using multiple human aptitudes; it is inventiveness. Therefore, an important part of understanding creativity is through the self-reflection of your own cognitive components of logical, spatial and aesthetics thinking, which requires the cortical processes of spatial sequencing memory and affective symmetry gauging. Creativity is relevant to the global community and international education because it is an inherent human expression. A case study of the experience of the art teachers at the John Langdon Down Foundation A.C. (JLDF) Mexican art school (who chose to undergo a meaningful and emotional journey of self-reflection) is the account of the development of a novel visuospatial and bodily kinetic curriculum for the JLDF art students with Down syndrome that seemed to improve both the teachers’ and students’ creativity, self-efficacy and spatial sequencing memory.
Recommended Citation
Ferg, Theresa, "Creativity Advances Logical, Spatial, and Aesthetics Cognitive Abilities Through Self-Reflection and May Improve Spatial Sequencing Memory" (2019). University College: Global Community Engagement Capstones. 29.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/ucol_gs/29
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