Development of a package of activities to channelize creativity and reduce behaviour issues in school age children
- Country : India
- Subject : Home Science
Keywords : creativity, children, behaviour, creative activities, behaviour irregularities
Abstract
Children are the assets of our Nation. Today's child grows in a fully mechanized world wherein he/she has no play areas, no opportunity to increase his muscles spontaneously and spend his pent up energy. They are also unaware of various creative activities which could help them keep involved and also act as an outlet for their emotions. In addition to this he/she is also the victim of his parents’ frustration and tensions too. All these coupled usually lend to emotional and behavioural issues in them which is nowadays seen to exist quite rampantly in most of the school aged children. This study was conducting for to check the prevalence of emotional and behaviour issues in children and prepare a module of creative activities to help channelize their energy. The area selected for the present study was Kangazha in Kottayam district. The school selected for the development of the tool was Vivekananda Vidya Mandir School located at Kangazha in Kottayam district of Kerala. Purposive sampling was the method used for sampling in the present study. The sample chosen for the study comprised of 85 school age children (45 boys & 40 girls) between the age group of 6-10 years. They were school going students from II, III, and IV grades. The tools used for the present study included, Questionnaire (self designed), Check list (self designed), Package of creative activities, Opinionnaire to evaluate the module. The main focus of the study was to prepare a home based package of creative activities to help reduce behavioural issues and improve their levels of emotions. Results indicate that the package evolved was quite effective. It may be concluded that this package would be highly beneficial for those identified with mild to moderate levels of behavioural issues in a way that they would spend their time usefully and creatively.
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