Practical pathways for fostering creativity in elementary art education: A systematic literature review

This study systematically reviews the teaching methods of cultivating students' creativity in basic art education, and puts forward a practical framework to provide reference for future teaching and curriculum design.Following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, researchers searched the Web of Science and Scopus databases and initially obtained 2049 records.After de duplication and screening, eight quasi-experimental studies were retained.All the subjects were primary school students.Each study implemented a teaching method aimed at enhancing the creativity of art classroom, and used standardized tools to evaluate the effectiveness of these methods.Using the methods of narrative review and theme analysis, the author summarizes three main teaching paths.First, some researches have adopted Project-Based Learning (PBL) in STEAM teaching environment.These courses combine art and science to cultivate students' creative thinking and practical ability.Secondly, some researches focus on classroom interaction and innovative teaching strategies.These methods significantly improve the students' creative expression ability and the quality of artistic works.Third, through interdisciplinary and multi-sensory curriculum design, integrate the contents of various disciplines and sensory experience, provide students with rich visual and sensory experience, and promote the development of students' aesthetic consciousness and creative expression ability.In general, these teaching methods have improved students' creativity to varying degrees, especially in fluency, originality and attention to detail.Some studies also found that students have a more positive learning attitude, deeper emotional participation, and increased classroom participation.The existing evidence shows that art education urgently needs a clear and reasonably structured teaching path, which integrates thinking, emotion and culture to better support the all-round development of students' creativity.