ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the defining and understanding creativity, key threads in creativity's interpretation, defining creativity for the early years, creativity's characteristics, creative processes and creative thinking. The twenty-first-century, however, started with a new analysis of the concept of creativity and what it means in education. Literature and research interpretation of creativity can be classed on a variety of levels: cognitively, intellectually, socially, economically, spiritually, and from the perspective of different disciplines. The session started with looking at attributes and characteristics of outstanding teachers. Many of the responses that were generated contained the word 'creativity', that adults working with children must be creative. With peers/colleagues how they use 'processes' in children's learning. Creativity is an inherent human ability and is made up of a number of components that can be achieved through the nurturing and stimulating of creative behaviours, creative skills, and creative thinking.
