Abstract
Innovative-creative thinking and tolerance towards uncertain situations concern the field of the present study. Through scenarios and alternative proposals that concern views about the presence (university) or the future as well (professional career after the university), the research focuses on undergraduate students in Greek universities. The research took place in2011 ina sample of 836 students, using the questionnaire as an instrument, in a difficult financially and socially conjuncture for the country, with the unemployment galloping especially in young people and graduates.The present study examines the extent to which the type of student’s studies (social science and science) differentiates innovative-creative thinking and tolerance towards the uncertainty of subjects. Results showed that undergraduates of Social Science Faculties make more “conservative” choices, both during their studies as well as during the selection of professional perspectives. On the other hand, students of Sciences show higher tolerance in uncertainty, pursuing more challenging working conditions, as well as assessment conditions during their studies, in comparison to students of Social Science Faculties.
Highlights
In an era in which the crisis, the ineffective policies, the isolationism in European Union create a reasonable skepticism about countries that are full of problems, mainly economical, especially in South European, and in Greece, in our country, the map of poverty deepens
Accepted definition is that creativity is the production of new and useful ideas, while innovation is the successful implementation of these ideas in an organization, a business, an institution (Amabile, Conti, Coon, Lazenby, & Herron, 1996)
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the differences between graduate students of different studies on the creativity, the innovative thinking and the perseverance/tolerance towards uncertainty
Summary
In an era in which the crisis, the ineffective policies, the isolationism in European Union create a reasonable skepticism about countries that are full of problems, mainly economical, especially in South European, and in Greece, in our country, the map of poverty deepens. European economies are low in commercially successful innovations, while Japan comes first at this level Under this reasoning, the problem lies in the attempt to reform the universities, in order to invest in new knowledge and to promote the academic staff and researchers to undertake new initiatives and risk for new scientific paths. As China that emphasizes innovation, encouraging new people to be adventurous and develop innovative products in the industry (OECD, 2006; Phelps, 2007; Shahid, 2009) It seems that the percentage of creative people in a society increases, when three conditions are satisfied: 1) significant value is attributed to learning in a stable home environment from early childhood to qualification and training and after college; 2) value is attributed to the health and happiness, to the quality of life of people in society.
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