ERIC Number: EJ1126405
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Publication Date: 2017
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Teachers' Conceptions of Student Creativity in Higher Education
Jahnke, Isa; Haertel, Tobias; Wildt, Johannes
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, v54 n1 p87-95 2017
Creativity is one of the important skills of the twenty-first century and central to higher education (HE). When we look closer into research on creativity in HE, however, it is not clear how university teachers conceptualise student creativity. How do teachers grasp, observe and express student creativity? Different methods such as interviews and online questionnaire have been used in this study. From the teacher perspective, student creativity is categorised into a 6-Facet-Model, in which teachers "see" student creativity expressed through (1) student self-reflections, (2) independent decisions, (3) through curiosity and motivation, (4) producing something, (5) multi-perspectives and (6) when students develop original new ideas. The results provide a new understanding of student creativity from university teachers' perspective that is useful for re-organising course designs.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Creativity, Higher Education, Questionnaires, Classification, Models, Curriculum Design, Reflection, Decision Making, Personality Traits, Learning Motivation, Student Developed Materials, Perspective Taking, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Independent Study, Semi Structured Interviews
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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