Following are science and early childhood education creativity theory and views:
1. **Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory**: Focuses on application of social interaction and guided learning to scientific discovery. Language and group play facilitate scientific ideas to be explored creatively by children.
2. **Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory**: Posits that children build their notion of the world through exploration and experience-based interactions, resulting in problem-solving creativity.
3. **Gardner's Multiple Intelligences**: Identifies "naturalistic intelligence," which is concerned with understanding the natural world, as essential for scientific creativity.
4. **Guilford's Divergent Thinking**: Demands producing a lot of varied solutions, exciting scientific creativity through creative thinking.
5. **Bruner's Constructivist Theory**: Seeks discovery learning in which children learn by dealing directly with science concepts, encouraging creativity through problem-solving and discovery.
They stress the need for active, collaborative, and exploratory learning in developing scientific creativity in young children.