Abstract
This study aims to examine primary and secondary school teachers’ creativity fostering behaviors and self-efficacy beliefs according to gender and subject matters taught by teachers and to investigate the relationships between teachers’ creativity fostering behaviors and their self-efficacy beliefs. The study was conducted with the participation of 120 teachers employed in primary and secondary schools in Ortaca District of Mugla Province. “Creativity Fostering Teacher Index Scale” (CFTIS) and “Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale” were used in data collection. Study results show a positive moderate level relationship between teachers’ creativity fostering behaviors and self-efficacy beliefs. It was also identified that gender and subject matter were not significant factors in teachers’ creativity fostering behaviors and teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs did not show meaningful differences based on subject matter taught by teachers. Key words: Creativity, self-efficacy, teacher behaviors.
Highlights
The wheel, steam engine, printing press, compass, telegram, telephone, electricity, internet and thousands of other things are creations by human beings to improve their and others’ lives and to solve problems
Mann-Whitney U test results show no significant differences between classroom and subject matter teachers in terms of creativity fostering behaviors
This study aims to examine primary and secondary school teachers’ creativity fostering behaviors and selfefficacy beliefs according to gender and subject matters taught by teachers and to investigate the relationships between teachers’ creativity fostering behaviors and their self-efficacy beliefs
Summary
The wheel, steam engine, printing press, compass, telegram, telephone, electricity, internet and thousands of other things are creations by human beings to improve their and others’ lives and to solve problems. Each of these creations generated important changes and developments in the history of humanity. Internet has established knowledge networks that practically connect the whole world. Defines the concept of creativity as the use of knowledge and skills in new forms to obtain valuable outputs (Burke, 2007) and San (2011, p.4) defines it as “creating totally new things out of known materials, reaching a new and original synthesis and providing new solutions to problems”
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