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Your Assignment Module Number and Heading: Foster children's aesthetic and creative development - RPL Cluster
Your Assignment Type: Standard Question
Currently Working in Childcare? No
Your knowledge: Advanced Knowledge

Your Question?
What is creativity ? What is aesthetics? Describe the link between the aesthetic and creative experiences?

What is your answer so far or What have you done so far as an attempt to solve this question?
I've answered the first two questions about creativity and aesthetic but I just cant seem to find the link between experiences.

Description and Message:
Not sure if I have been studying for too long or what lol?!

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and in some way valuable is created (such as an idea, a joke, an artistic or literary work, a painting or musical composition, a solution, an invention etc).

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics

The attachment in the following topic may also help:

CHCFC508A - Key Aspects Of Designing An Aesthetic Program

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I'm not finding the other posts helpful so I've written my own. Thanks though.
my answers are:

1. Creativity is about thinking, exploring, discovering, and imagining. Creativity is not to be confused with talent, skill, or intelligence.
Creativity should allow children to:
⦁ imagine and create
⦁ propose theories and reasons
⦁ master skills
⦁ have meaningful experiences
⦁ express thoughts and ideas
⦁ solve problems
⦁ engage in reflective thinking
⦁ ƒexplore diverse ways of knowing, thinking and learning.
⦁ Make available a range of materials that encourage creative
expression, for example, paints, blocks, paper, glue, textas,
pencils and crayons.
⦁ Include objects such as stones, shells, flowers, art
prints, fabric and baskets.
⦁ Improvise equipment and materials, for example making a
teepee from palm fronds.
⦁ Support children to feel a sense of ownership of, and
responsibility for, equipment and materials let them choose
and help them learn to care for things.

Aesthetics description stages
Stage 1 – Accountive
Accountive viewers are storytellers. Using their senses, memories, and personal associations, they make concrete observations about a work of art that are woven into a narrative.
Stage 2 – Constructive
Constructive viewers set about building a framework for looking at works of art, using the most logical and accessible tools. Their sense of what is realistic is the standard often applied to determine value. As emotions begin to go underground, these viewers begin to distance themselves from the work of art.
Stage 3 – Classifying
Classifying viewers adopt the analytical and critical stance of the art historian. They want to identify the work as to place, school, style, time and provenance. This viewer believes that properly categorized, the work of art's meaning and message can be explained and rationalized.
Stage 4 – Interpretive
Interpretive viewers seek a personal encounter with a work of art. Exploring the work, letting its meaning slowly unfold, they appreciate subtleties of line and shape and color. Now critical skills are put in the service of feelings and intuitions as these viewers let underlying meanings of the work what it symbolizes emerge. Each new encounter with a work of art presents a chance for new comparisons, insights, and experiences.
Stage 5 – Re-Creative
Re-creative viewers, having a long history of viewing and reflecting about works of art, now willingly suspend disbelief.

I feel like Im not answering the question? is this too much or am I on the right track?

thanks