Cultural education and creativity in elementary school
How does cultural education affect the creativity of fifth graders? Researchers at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter near Bonn and the University of Kassel are investigating this question.
The first round of data collection has been carried out in more than 50 school classes from the Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Cologne and Kassel regions as part of the KuBiK5 research project, short for "Effect of cultural education on creativity in the 5th school year". The study differs from previous studies in that family and individual factors are taken into account in addition to school and extracurricular characteristics.
The study assumes that cultural education is of great importance for the development of personality and creativity. Cultural education is seen as an indispensable part of a comprehensive education. At school, it is usually the subjects of art, music or sport in which children come into contact with cultural education.
The project is part of the "Research Fund for Cultural Education - Studies on the Effects of Cultural Education", a project of the Council for Cultural Education, funded by Stiftung Mercator. An independent commission selected KuBiK5 alongside five other projects from a total of 78 project applications received.
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