Play, Imagination, and Creativity: A Brief Literature Review

What the ultimate goal for education is to help students develop their capabilities and in turn to maximize theirpotentials into practical uses in everyday life. In fact, teachers are critical resources at their disposal to facilitatemaximum students learning experience and to release students’ potentials in classrooms. It is believed thatcreativity is an important capacity for students to possess in order to face this fast-changing world. The purpose ofcurrent study is to review related literature on play, imagination, and creativity. By doing so, it is hoped to providesome useful insights for educators to bring those concepts into classrooms in terms of promoting creativity. Finally,several creativity strategies for facilitating creativity are discussed. The overall results of the literature reviewsuggest that educators should bring play and imagination in their classrooms in order to encourage creativity.