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Improving Creative Ability of Base of Pyramid (BOP) Students in India
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Thinking Skills and Creativity, vol. 36
Date: Jun 2020
Pages: 100652
Action research, Asia, India, South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: A study was undertaken to investigate how to prepare Base of Pyramid (BOP) children in India for creativity. The quasi-experiment study involved seventy 5th grade BOP students from two municipality schools in Mumbai, India. The training group students were given Design Thinking training spread over two action research cycles, while the control group received no intervention. The present study reports on findings from the second action research cycle during which the training group received training on divergent thinking skills—skills required for Design Thinking. The data was collected using classroom worksheets and intervention test sheets, and the objective was to find answers to how ideation took place during creative work and whether divergent thinking skills—as a part of Design Thinking training—helped in improving creative ability. The quantitative analysis of The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) inspired intervention test sheets indicated an overall significant difference in creative ability indicator scores of students who received intervention over those who did not. Furthermore, the significant difference was found for figural tasks but not for verbal tasks. The present study also showed how a mixed-method analysis can be useful for capturing socio-cultural elements, measuring relevant idea generation and identifying the need for different creative confidence-building strategies. The study identified language as a barrier for idea expression in the case of BOP students for whom language of instruction at school was different from language spoken at home. The study recommended socio-techno entrepreneurs to use this challenge as an opportunity for becoming stakeholders in creativity skilling for BOP students.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2020.100652
ISSN: 1871-1871
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Meditation, Rangoli, and Eating on the Floor: Practices from an Urban Preschool in Bangalore, India
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: YC - Young Children, vol. 65, no. 6
Date: Nov 2010
Pages: 48-55
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Language: English
ISSN: 1538-6619
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A Sketch of the Tulalip Indian School
Available from: National Archives (USA)
Publication: Indian School Journal, vol. 15, no. 5
Date: Jan 1915
Pages: 240-242
Americas, Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 0364-7056
Article
Districts Weighing Future of Montessori Programs [South Bend, Indiana; Gaylord, Michigan; Cambridge, Massachusetts]
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 18, no. 4
Date: Summer 2006
Pages: 24
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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The Montessori Training Centre for Village Schools in Yeotmal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 3
Date: 1958
Pages: 76-79
Asia, India, South Asia, Trainings
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
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Excerpts from Inaugural and Valedictory Addresses of the 25th and 26th Indian Montessori Training Courses, Hyderabad, 1960-62
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 7
Date: 1962
Pages: 58-64
Albert Max Joosten - Writings, Asia, Conferences, India, Indian Montessori Training Course (25th, Hyderabad, India, 1960-1961), Indian Montessori Training Course (26th, Hyderabad, India, 1961-1962), South Asia, Trainings
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
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[Obituary: Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia]
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 6
Date: 1961
Pages: 83
Asia, India, Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia - Biographic sources, Obituaries, South Asia
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
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Shreyas [School in Ahmedabad, India]
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 8
Date: 1963
Pages: 28-35
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
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The Montessori Training Centre for Village Schools in Yeotmal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1957, no. 3/4
Date: 1957
Pages: 38–42
Asia, India, Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples, South Asia, Trainings
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
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Extracts from the Address of Mrs. Bhalchandra at the Pre-School Education-Rural, Held at Seminar Hyderabad Deccan, India, in 1964
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1965, no. 1
Date: 1965
Pages: 16-20
Asia, India, Rural education, South Asia
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959