Abstract
The paper focused on how teachers enhance their creativity in secondary school using digital technology in secondary school studies. The study adopted the phenomenological approach by Gadamer and Csikszentmihalyi process of creativity. The paper presents an overview of teachers’ lived experience that reveals the specific behaviour enhancing teacher creativity. The paper indentifies the factors enhancing teacher creativity while using digital technology. The paper concludes that teacher creativity is enhanced by the inner teacher creative personality characteristics, the external institutional forces, and the social environment where the teacher operates in. it means that using digital technology in secondary school studies allows teachers to be involved in the study process while the success of such teacher involvement is sustained by the creative personality traits and environment which support creativity. Keywords: Teacher Creativity, Creative Personality, Digital Technology, Social Environment. DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-27-03 Publication date :September 30 th 2019
Highlights
The expression of the teacher creativity while using digital technology is a subject of concern in the present dispensation of teaching and learning among secondary school students
The study focused on enhancing teacher creativity while using digital technology in secondary schools
10 The school encourages the use of digital technology we feel a sense of creativity
Summary
The expression of the teacher creativity while using digital technology is a subject of concern in the present dispensation of teaching and learning among secondary school students. Because of the changes observed above teachers are forced to independently decide and construct their own reality within the context of their personal-social and work environment It is in the process of the personal learning and development that teacher creativity using digital technology becomes a necessary means of imparting knowledge to the students. Gadamer noted that promethean gave man fire, cultural skills and ability to help himself (creativity). Such creative activities are revealed in navigation, medicine, sculpture engineering, communication etc. According to Sliogeriene and ValunaiteOleskeviciene (2017) with fire and tools man was able to constantly invent, reinvent technology and being reinvented by technology
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