The Effectiveness of the Philosophy for Children Program in Fostering Preschool Children

Many scholars consider the "Philosophy for Children" program to be one of the most important tools in fostering thinking and creativity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the "Philosophy for Children" program (p4c) on fostering the creativity of preschool children in Tehran. This research was carried out using quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group in 13 sessions of 45 minutes 2 sessions per week. The statistical population of this study included all preschool children in the 8th district of Tehran in the academic year of 2018-2019 who were in the range of 5 to 6 years old. The statistical sample of this study included 20 participants (n=10 experimental and n=10 control groups) who were selected by available sampling method and the intervention method was randomly assigned to one of the groups. In order to collect data, a visual form of the Torrance creativity test was used. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data. The findings of this study confirmed the credibility of the philosophy for children program in fostering creativity and its four main components, originality, expansion, fluidity and flexibility.