Desarrollo del pensamiento creativo: escritura creativa en producción de textos en lengua y literatura en estudiantes de educación general básica media

Abstract

The study focused on the development of creative thinking for the production of texts, in fifth-year students of basic general education. This recognizes the nature of creative thinking in writing, by identifying the strategies used by teachers and describing the state of creativity and imagination of students. The qualitative method was developed, based on the technique of focus groups. The research has two phases. The first determined the skills with performance criteria that work and stimulate creative thinking intentionally in the production of texts. The second analyzed the Didactic Unit Plans (PUD), activities and texts. The subjects were 16 teachers of Basic General Education, from public and private schools, city of Cuenca, Ecuador; and 129 students in the fifth year of basic general education, 70 belonging to the public sector and 59 to the private sector. It was evidenced that seven skills are present; these are the use of cognitive comprehension strategies for understanding texts, access to sources such as libraries and digital web resources, support of the collaborative and individual writing process, through (ICT), these skills are only worked on in private schools. The use of semantic and phonological terminology to linguistic knowledge by using coherent connectors to time, verb and person, are developed both in public and private schools. Most of the skills were applied in private schools with innovative activities; whereas, in public schools, the activities and texts are quite basic.