Following are creativity theories and views from an engineering and early childhood perspective:
1. **Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory**: Emphasizes social interaction and cooperative problem-solving with children working together in developing, constructing, and testing to promote creative thinking.
2. **Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory**: Focuss on action construction and experimentation, where children experimentally build and test ideas, developing creative thinking through trial and error.
3. **Gardner's Multiple Intelligences**: Refers to "spatial intelligence" as being strong in engineering, where children use imagination to envision and build solutions.
4. **Guilford's Divergent Thinking**: Promotes brainstorming many solutions and methods, the hallmark of creative problem-solving on engineering problems.
5. **Bruner's Constructivist Theory**: Facilitates discovery learning, where children work with engineering problems in developing, experimenting, and improving concepts through experimenting.