APS
2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026
Growing Creativity: Do Child-Centered Schools Provide the Supportive Soil?
- Silvia Guerrero
UCM - Marina Oliva
Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Andrea Palacios
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Pardo-Guijarro María Jesús
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Ileana Enesco
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Abstract
Creative thinking was compared across child-centered (CC) and teacher-centered (TC) contexts. CC schooling predicted higher divergent creativity (Study 1). In convergent problem-solving (Study 2), context-dependent developmental patterns showed steeper gains in CC than TC settings. Overall, CC environments appear to strengthen key components of children’s creative cognition.
