Abstract

One of the most common goals of the education system throughout the world refers to the development of a creative personality that could easily adapt the fast changes that are occurring in modern society. Creative attitude is regarded as the foundation stone for creative personality. Therefore, the study of factors like: biological, psychological and social that influence pupils’ creativity and creative attitude occupies a significant place within the contemporary research. In this educational context, this paper is centered on the factors affecting student’s creativity and aimed to find out the factors related to teachers, students and instructional environment. For this, the researcher used content analysis method and studied previous researches conducted to find out the influencing factors of creativity. The results indicate the key factors that can affect learner’s creativity as: factors related to teacher are personal quality, thinking style, educational experience, teaching belief, personal effort, intrinsic motivation, professional knowledge; factors related to students are fear to failure, cooperation and collaboration, family factor, competition and conflict and factors related to instructional environment are autonomy, administration support & resources and peer interaction.

Highlights

  • Education is one of the greatest services provided by teachers

  • These factors are categorized into three categories: (1) Factors related to teachers that affect creativity (2) Factors related to students that affect creativity (3) Factors related to instructional environment that affect creativity

  • A number of scholars (Anderson et al, 1995; Joram, 1998) believed that creative individuals have a well-developed set of beliefs about learning and teaching. They give value to self-expression, sharing, and communication abilities. The teaching of these kind of teachers is directly guided by their teaching beliefs, and to them creative teaching is a tool to attain their teaching ideals. (v) Personal Effort: Esquivel (1995) in his study found that individuals having training in creative methods and activities are more likely to show a receptive attitude and behaviour toward students’ creativity

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The role played by teachers is very important as they work in close co-ordination with students to help them in builds up their future. They mould the students to sharpen their skills, teach good habits and help them to be a good citizen of the nation. Due to technological progress and globalization, rapid changes are occurring in the modern society. In this fact changing society, individuals are confronted with new problems and in order to deal with these problems, one needs a well-developed capacity to adapt new situations and to find new ways to

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