Authors

• Kaveh Rostami ¹
• Irandokht Fayyaz ²
• Omid Ghasemi ³

¹ PhD student in Philosophy of Educationin Allameh Tabataba'i University

² The Faculty Member of Allameh Tabataba’i University, Faculty of Education and Psychology

³ M.A. in Elementary Education, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Allameh Tabataba’i University,

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study Philip Cam’s brain stories effects on the preschool children's creativity development in Tehran. The study sample was all preschool children in 2013-2014 school years in Tehran, using multi-stage cluster sampling, 30 children were selected as samples among them. The Torrance's creativity test (form B) which has three active and four subscales of fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration was used in order to collect data. The Philip Cam’s brain stories were executed over 10 sessions of 45 minutes within 3 months. The study is considered as quasi-experimental of pretest-posttest type applying the control group and follow-up period for the test group. For data analysis the covariance and paired t-test was utilized. The study results indicated that the children’s creativity who have been trained under Philip’s intellectual stories has developed in all 4 dimensions, the growth enjoys the appropriate stability in length of following up.

Keywords

• Philip Cam’s intellectual stories
• creativity
• Torrance