The study of relationship between the philosophic mind ness and creativity of school principals

Abstract

The key purpose of the current study was to investigation of relationship between the philosophic mind ness and the amount of school principal's creativity. In addition, the study aimed to compare difference between philosophic mind ness and the principal's creativity in relation to their age, gender, field of study and level of school that who works, namely, primary, guidance, and high school. The study used a descriptive method of research. The sample of this study was including 120 principals who were randomly selected by the cluster-sampling technique from Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. In order to collect the required data for analyzing the research hypotheses, the philosophic mind ness and creativity questionnaire was used. So as to analyze the data, the t-test, one way analysis of variance and Pearson Product-Moment of correlation was used. The results of study indicated that there was a positive and significant relationship between the philosophic mind ness and its dimensions, i.e. comprehensiveness, penetration and flexibility with principals’ creativity. Further, results showed that primary school principals were high as compare to guidance and high school principals with regard to the philosophic mind ness as well as creativity. There was no relationship among philosophic mind ness and creativity of principals on the subject of age, gender and field of study as well.