The effect of philosophy for children curriculum on the growth of students' creativity

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of implementing a philosophy for children curriculum on the growth of students' creativity. The statistical population of the study was fifth grade female students in the nineteenth grade of Tehran's education district, of which 56 were selected by convenience sampling and then divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group was trained in a philosophy curriculum for children in 16 sessions. Due to the fact that the research design was pre-test and post-test with a control group, the creativity measurement tool was implemented twice before and after the presentation of the philosophy curriculum for children. The data obtained from pre-test and post-test were analyzed using analysis of covariance. The findings of the present study indicated the favorable effect of research intervention on creativity and its subscales. In other words, the findings of the present study indicate that the philosophy for children curriculum has increased the level of creativity of learners and its components, ie flexibility, initiative, expansion, fluidity in the experimental group compared to the control group