The Developement of Art Creativity through Project Method

The thesis deals with general creativity and creativity development of adolescent children by the means of project method. Theoretical part describes creativity as a term, its factors and levels. It further characterizes these terms: creative activity, creation, creative thinking, brainware, and creative experience. Further it analyses creativity importance for an individual person and society as a whole. It also characterises creative type of personality, describes pedagogical creativity and offers ways and means of creativity support. Next part draws up creative thinking development possibilities and development possibilities of qualities important for creative personality development. Next chapter pursues project method character. It describes case-history, then it targets the project-problem relation, highlights project education effects and basic principles. It focuses on phases of the project process and project pattern overview. In following chapters school subject art education, its characteristic, its main goals, and art education pedagogy methods and forms are described. Artistic expression development and crises of artistic expression are described, too. The thesis further concerns leisure time, extracurricular education and its institutions, relations of leisure time, lifestyle and focus on social values. Last chapter considers adolescence. Practical part contains description of an art project, which is divided into several creative activities. This part is focused particularly on spontaneous expression of a group supporting