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Reflection of phases of interviews with preschool and younger school children, during the creative art activities with ceramic clay.
HOŘKÁ, Vlasta
The author will first introduce the reason she had chosen her topic, which is focused on using clay as the mean of promoting creativity while interviewing children, this is to help personality growth and preparation to enter school in preschool children. In the theoretical part the author will touch on some developmental theories of preschool and younger school-age children, followed by pointing out the specifics of pre-school education and the importance of an educator's personality with regards on effective communication. The factors that facilitate and block creativity will also be discussed within this section together with the topic of ceramics as a mean of creativity formation. This section will be concluded by a small sample of artefacts that may be used as an inspiration for children's art creation. In the practical part of this paper the author will explain the main aim of her research which is looking for a communicative strategy of the reflection on the phases of an interview with children of pre-school and young school age during creative activities using clay. Her personal goal is then to find an optimal thematic programme for ceramic activities club with the participation of children and their parents and propose a supplementary project of ceramic club for pre-school children in a nursery school to help them to complete their education in integrated blocks. The participants were pre-school and young school-age children of a ceramic club that the author has been running for ten years. The realization of this research includes an illustration and a reflexion of the interview with children. In the final part the author has included an overall assessment. The programme was developed in such a way that it would contribute to a development of a child's abilities with regards to their preferred topics of discussion. Some examples of the procedures implemented in the ceramics club including cooperation of the parents and in the nursery school are listed in the appendix and the results based on practical application are drawn in the conclusion of this paper.

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