When you look at Harry Potter films, children increase their creativity
(www.neomundo.com.ar_/_Por_Enrique_Garabetyan) parents who felt guilty because their children “spent” hours and hours watching movies about the adventures of the young Wizard Harry Potter and his friends can sleep peacefully: a research done by psychologists of the English University of Lancaster found that a significant proportion of young people who watched films based on the books of j. K. Rowling then – exhibited in various test – enhanced the capacity of creativity and an open imagination. The work done by these professionals is the first attempt to check if there is any benefit educational when it comes to mixing the education of children with content relating to the “magic”. And this includes, in addition to the books of witches, other issues such as myths and legends about Santa Claus, the Easter, and the fairies. Creative work The study, now small, but significant results focused on analyze if there was some kind of relationship between magical thinking generated by these books and legends and the creativity shown by children in the pre-school age. And this link proved to be true. Study was conducted with 52 boys aged between 4 and 6 years of age. The youngsters were divided into two groups and showed them to both two video clips made based on scenes from the first movie of Potter (philosopher’s stone). Then they subjected to a series of exercises which were...
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