Designing and validation of creativity training program for preschool children

The present research was conducted with the aim of designing and validating the creativity training program for preschool children. The research method was qualitative with a content analysis approach. The community included specialized texts in the field of creativity education in Farsi and English in the last 10 years (1400-1390 and 2011-2021) and were also experts in the field of creativity. Out of 100 extracted articles, 50 articles that met the inclusion criteria were reviewed. 7 experts (until saturation) were selected and interviewed in a targeted way. Open and axial coding was used for data analysis. Experts were used to validate the proposed training program. A total of 520 basic codes were extracted from articles and interviews. Then these codes are included in higher level codes such as: children's participation in designing and changing the space and layout of the classroom, interacting with other children, presenting children's skills with the help of expression techniques, performing arts, music-based skills training, creative performances, photography, poetry reading, skills Physical-motor, the role of peers in the exchange of information in order to solve the problem and other cases were classified. Based on the identified codes, a creativity training program was developed for preschool children. The creativity training program can encourage preschool children to stimulate the world and the interrelationship of its constituent elements with flexibility, imagination and problem solving skills.