ABSTRACT
In this chapter we present examples of how contemporary preschools in China and Japan are approaching the task of promoting young children’s creativity.
Our topic is not to provide an overview of Japanese and Chinese approaches to arts education for young children, but instead creativity education. Arts is of course part of this story, but in China and Japan thinking about promoting creativity in young children does not center on the arts, as it does, for example, in the US, but instead is more broadly focused on education across the content areas and even beyond the content areas to the domain of interpersonal relations.
