Fostering Creativity : The Full Day Kindergarten Classroom in Ontario: Learning Through Inquiry and Play and Its Implications for Child Development

Dr. Karia's development of the EYE (Early Years Education) Model serves to highlight essential elements for quality Full Day Kindergarten learning and through her research and teaching experience she is able to take a closer look at how to build more creativity into the lives of children. By encouraging children to develop individual ideas they are learning to master whole brain thinking - by questioning, exploring, and experimenting they are engaging in critical, deeper and higher order thinking. Fostering Creativity reaches out to educators, scholars, and policy-makers who are interested in schooling and child development. This well-researched book sparks learning and evokes vitality, vigor and value of the early years of education.