Analysis Minang Dance that modifies into Braindance for Children Creative Thinking Skills Elindra Yetti- Erie Siti Syarah
Universitas Negeri Jakarta
Abstract
It is important to develop creative-thinking skills so that children are trained to be able to generate new ideas as alternatives in solving problems. Many studies have discussed about moving activities in early childhood, which can improve child creativity. Brain dance activities that are created from the traditional dances can be suitable activities. The purpose of this study was to analyze the movements of the Minang dance which were created into a brain dance, good for creative-thinking skills. Using qualitative methods, data collection was carried out through interviews with Minang dance experts, early-childhood teacher reflection journals, and analysis of the brain dance audio-visual documents. Through typological analysis techniques, the study found four ideal types in the category of creative thinking skills in children. The most important findings were on different thinking skills emergence (typology 2)- and brain dance is able to stimulate problem finding and solving skills (typology 4). Further research can explore the richness of Indonesian regional dances which are developed into children^s educational dances and are related to the potential of other children development.
Keywords: braindance based Minang dance- creative thinking skills- early childhood
