Course Details Language of Instruction Turkish Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree Department / Program Economics Type of Program Formal Education Type of Course Unit Elective Course Delivery Method Face To Face Objectives of the Course The purpose of this course is to develop prospective primary school teachers’ creative thinking and creative writing skills; to enable them to produce original texts by utilizing various stimuli, techniques, and genres; to support their effective use of the writing process—including planning, drafting, revising, receiving feedback, and rewriting; and to ensure that they transform these experiences into instructional practices that enhance students ` writing motivation, imagination, expression skills, and writer identity in primary school Turkish language education. Course Content "The Creative Writing course is a practice-oriented course that addresses the relationship between creativity, creative thinking, and writing, as well as the core principles and instructional processes of creative writing. Within the scope of the course, students engage in exercises such as utilizing senses and observation, association, free writing, and writing based on visuals and music; developing character, setting, time, point of view, plot, and dialogue; producing stories, fairy tales, poetry, and short creative texts; as well as text revision, peer feedback, and rewriting. Additionally, the course emphasizes prospective teachers designing creative writing activities for primary school students, evaluating student products through both process- and product-oriented approaches, and using digital/multimodal environments ethically." Course Methods and Techniques "The course is conducted in the form of creative writing workshops following brief theoretical lectures. It incorporates practices such as free writing, brainstorming, association, sensory description, prompt-based writing using visuals/music/objects, story completion, altering perspectives, developing characters and dialogues, rewriting, collaborative writing, peer review, and author’s chair activities. Prospective teachers experience the process in both their roles as writers and as future primary school teachers, discussing how these practices can be adapted to the primary school level." Prerequisites and co-requisities None Course Coordinator None Name of Lecturers Asist Prof.Dr. Sakine HAKKOYMAZ sakine.hakkoymaz@hku.edu.tr Assistants None Work Placement(s) No Recommended or Required Reading Resources • Susar Kırmızı, F. Yaratıcı Yazma ve Yaratıcı Yazma Tekniklerine ilişkin çalışmalar ve ders materyalleri. • Ahıskalı, E. E., & Maltepe, S. (2023). The effect of creative writing activities on pre-service teachers’ narrative text composing skills. Journal of Pedagogical Research, 7(4), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.33902/JPR.202321313 • Barton, G., Khosronejad, M., Ryan, M., Kervin, L., & Myhill, D. (2024). Teaching creative writing in primary schools: A systematic review of the literature through the lens of reflexivity. The Australian Educational Researcher, 51(4), 1311-1330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00641-9 Course Notes • Susar Kırmızı, F. Yaratıcı Yazma ve Yaratıcı Yazma Tekniklerine ilişkin çalışmalar ve ders materyalleri. • Ahıskalı, E. E., & Maltepe, S. (2023). The effect of creative writing activities on pre-service teachers’ narrative text composing skills. Journal of Pedagogical Research, 7(4), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.33902/JPR.202321313 • Barton, G., Khosronejad, M., Ryan, M., Kervin, L., & Myhill, D. (2024). Teaching creative writing in primary schools: A systematic review of the literature through the lens of reflexivity. The Australian Educational Researcher, 51(4), 1311-1330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00641-9 Course Category Social Sciences %100