Yaratıcılık ve Yaratıcı Düşünme: Tüm Boyut ve Paydaşlarıyla Kapsayıcı Bir Derleme Çalışması

Abstract

Creativity and creative thinking are considered as innate skills developed under positive environmental conditions, stagnating or dulling under negative environmental conditions. Creativity and creative thinking skills, which can be improved with education, have taken their place among the general aims of education in our country. Many factors especially such as family and social and physical environ-ment, school, curriculum, teacher etc. affect the development of individuals' creativity and creative thinking skills. This review study was conducted in order to compile and present the basic information in the literature about creativity and creative thinking. First of all, definitions related to creativity concept were given and the approaches that originated from these definitions were examined in the scope of the study. Then, features of creative individual, misunderstandings about creativity, dimensi-ons and stages of creativity were given. The factors that prevent creativity were discussed after mentio-ning the relationship between the concepts of intelligence, age, brain, divergent thinking and imagina-tion. On the other hand, definitions of thinking and thought concepts are given and information about creative thinking which is one of the high level thinking skills is presented. In addition, the ways of facilitating the development of creative thinking, learning-teaching environments, teacher characteris-tics are mentioned, and the duties of parents and the environment to develop and support creativity are explained. It is hoped that this study which can be considered as “a brief handbook of creativity and creative thinking” will contribute to the literature, the creativity of individuals and the development of creative thinking skills.