CREATIVITY AND BRAIN HEMISPHERES: EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS

The problem of defence and development of the creative and humanistic potential of human beings (as a problem of psychoecology) is discussed in the context of brain hemispheric asymmetry. Data from experiments (drawing and writing with the right and left hand, their interference with solving of mathematical tasks) show simple practical methods for the facilitation of nonverbal creative self‐realisation in art. The nature of aesthetic feeling and its connection with creative psychic states is discussed in this context. Research (creative work of pupils aged 7‐11 in art) shows that the unconscious collective hostility of traditionally educated children to creative self‐expression increases with age, and that there is a high correlation of creative activity with ambidextrousness. A broad psychoecological program is proposed on the basis of the data.