Creativity: A cognitive process, pillar of education

Abstract

This investigation is aimed at characterizing one of the cognitive processes that give place to creativity. This study is based on the Texas school proposal, developed by authors Finke, Ward & Smith (1996), who affirm that cognitive-creative processes are developed in two phases, the generative phase and the exploratory phase. This qualitative and descriptive study is aimed at characterizing the analogical transfer (PCC) in fiction stories written by seven and eight years old students participating in the study. Analysis has allowed the demonstration that education is the pertinent and adequate vehicle for developing the creative capacity in both boys and girls.