Pixel International Conferences

Following an initial presentation of WASO – Write A Science Opera - as a creative process based on simultaneous science and art discovery which relies on a dialogue base and acceptance of others’ point of view to empower its participants, we pinpoint the concept of innovation as the groundbreaking force of the traditional pedagogical methodology in classroom. Creativity and multidisciplinarity are the foundations of the WASO matrix, turning academic content in a process of personal and group build-up; knowledge is therefore emotionally appropriated by its participants, rather than passive acquisition. Emotion-based work developed by subjects is only possible if we regard motivation as the force that drives the evolution since the project’s very beginning. We propose, then, to study the subject’s motivation, comparing the before- and after WASO-scenarios and trying to set some relation between enrolling this project and perceived levels of motivation. A specific data collection instrument was built and applied to a sample of more than 90 students; results show that there’s a significant difference between the levels of motivation before and after the WASO project, being the latter higher. Beyond justifying the presence of creativity and the active construction of knowledge, this opens further new horizons on studying the effects of such creativity based projects on school results, as motivation seems to grow when creativity enters into pedagogy.