Perceptions Of Creativity Research Articles

The perception of creativity and creative abilities among general education and special education teachers

Previous studies have shown that creativity has become an educational imperative and one of the core competencies recognized by proponents of 21st century education. Teachers’ perception regarding creativity are an important key to understanding the creative processes in the classroom. The current study investigates the differences in creativity perception and creativity potential between 59 special education teachers and 58 general education teachers. The Teacher’s Perceptions of Student Characteristics Survey was used to examine the teachers’ perception regarding their own creativity and regarding their desirability of the traits associated with creativity among their students. The RAT measured the teachers convergent thinking creativity and the TACT measured the teachers’ divergent thinking creativity.The results indicate that although teachers in both study groups perceived themselves as having a high creativity level and considered creativity to be the most important educational goal, most teachers preferred less creative characteristics among their students. The findings also highlight the differences between general education teachers and special education teachers in their perception of creativity and their creative ability. Finally, this study further assessed the contribution of the teacher’s background characteristics and their creativity level to the overall ratings of desirability of the traits associated with creativity and of the traits contradictive to creativity among their students. The results emphasize the tension between highly regarded values such as creativity and the system’s demand from teachers to master knowledge and skills of the curriculum, especially in GE whom exhibited stronger preference for non-creative traits among their students.

Students’ self-perceptions of creativity: the case of Emirati students in a first-year English program

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the opinions of first-year Emirati students in a writing-intensive English program regarding the extent to which they found themselves creative and the ways in which they expressed creativity in general. The other aim was to identify the ways in which they tended to make their writing creative. The study also sought to see if there were differences between male and female students’ responses. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 54 first-year Emirati students using a survey with closed and open-ended questions. Findings Results revealed that only three quarters of the students considered themselves creative. The most common ways in which they perceived themselves creative were through originality, problem-solving and design. With regards to creativity in writing, amongst several factors, they believed that the incorporation of experience, skillful use of lexis and grammar and understanding of their audience in particular make their writing creative. There were no statistically significant differences between male and female students’ responses. Originality/value People’s cultural backgrounds play a significant role in their perception of creativity and beliefs in their own creative writing powers. Creative writing skills are, therefore, often among key learning outcomes, and many universities offer their students writing-focused courses. For these courses to be successful, students’ perceptions of creativity skills ought to be taken into consideration. The current study achieved this.

Electronic Music and Generative Remixing: Improving L-Systems Aesthetics and Algorithms

Abstract Postmodern art theories, overproduction, and digital technologies are testing the creativity, innovation, and social and political engagement of art. One Dadaist solution being explored by artists is the aesthetic possibilities associated with the conceptual process. For example, in the field of electronic music, producers and DJs are claiming that remixing is a genuine example of such a creative procedure; however, to justify this claim, remixing requires the bringing of the aesthetic foundations together using digital tools. The main problem is that digital audio workstations and plug-ins enclose artists in specific frameworks that blur the boundaries between true creativity and a perception of creativity. This article sought to develop remixing codes and software using Lindenmayer systems (L-systems), which are parallel rewriting systems with a type of formal grammar. As much of their potential remains unexplored, some algorithms and interface designs were developed to improve their interactive programming options. Finally, using the programmable L-systems as a genetic metaphor, some additions to musical morphing were developed as a starting point to building a generative remixing technique.

Preference for Complexity and Asymmetry Contributes to an Ability to Overcome Structured Imagination: Implications for Creative Perception Paradigm

The study is a part of a research project, which explores the role of creative perception in creative behavior. We operationalized creative behavior as an ability to overcome structured imagination, as measured by the Invented Alien Creature test, and operationalized creative perception as a preference for complexity and asymmetry, which we assessed using a standard Barron–Welsh Art Scale. Our group of participants was composed of ninety-three undergraduate students from the United Arab Emirates. The degree to which one preferred complexity and asymmetry measurably contributed to their ability to overcome structured imagination. This finding adds another brick to the rising seventh pillar of the creativity construct, namely, creative perception. The article provides a first sketch of the creative perception paradigm.

STUDENT, PARENT AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS ON THE BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY AND THE IMPLICATIONS TO ENHANCE STUDENTS' SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY

Teachers’ and parents’ perceptions of scientific creativity are assumed to be an important environmental factor for scientific creativity, so this research surveyed their perceptions of the behavioral characteristics of scientific creativity and compared their perceptions to those of students. This is achieved with a list of behavioral characteristics of creative physicists during their growth period. For this survey, 48 science teachers, 112 parents, and 145 science gifted students participated. Out of the 30 items of the list, they selected 10 items that were considered important indicators to become creative scientists in the future, and they ranked them according to their importance. The results showed that the three groups all perceived ‘conducting experiments, asking questions, thinking logically to solve difficult problems, and sharing ideas’ as important for scientific creativity. For the items that were perceived to be less important, it was discussed why these items might be necessary for scientific creativity. Comparative result showed that parents gave more importance to learning-related aspects, teachers to thinking-related aspects, and students to activities such as making and experimenting. This research showed the behavioral characteristics that should be encouraged to improve students’ scientific creativity at school and at home. Keywords: behavioral characteristics, creativity perception, creative environment, scientific creativity

E-Learning and Academic Performance during Covid-19: The Case of Teaching Integral Calculus

This study investigates the impact of implementing integral calculus lectures which were originally very suitable in face-to-face delivery, but during the Covid-19 pandemic situation, these were delivered online through e-learning. This research analyzes the correlation between self-efficacy, creativity perception, and productive disposition towards academic performance using path analysis and was modeled in the form of regression equation. This study involved 108 students (35 males and 72 females) at a university in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The research instrument used was questionnaire of self-efficacy (11 items), creativity perception (15 items) and mathematical disposition (14 items). All research variable items had a Pearson correlation (r) greater than 0.25, so all items were said to be valid. The reliability coefficient of Cronbach's Alpha for self-efficacy, perceived creativity, and productive disposition were included in the high category. The results showed a correlation between self-efficacy and creativity perception with regard to productive disposition. There was also a direct correlation between self-efficacy and academic performance. Creativity perception did not show a direct influence on academic performance nor. Productive disposition had a direct influence on academic performance. There was a correlation between self-efficacy, creativity perception, and productive disposition of academic performance. Self-efficacy (happy to help other friends, dare to face criticism and challenges, and dare to compete to win a competition) had the largest contribution to academic performance while creativity perception (creative ideas must be sophisticated and complex, creative people have high curiosity, creative people find it difficult to accept different opinions from others, creativity can only be developed in certain people, and creativity comes over by chance) has the smallest one. These findings can be used as first step in understanding creative perception as a weak contribution to cognitive abilities about academic performance, even though creativity has an important role in developing mathematics performance.

Evolution of the artist's profession as an important factor in the art market development (from Antiquity to the Renaissance)

The article describes artistic creativity as a professional activity and as an important factor in the art market development. It attempts to follow the evolution of the profession from craft to intellectual creativity in the period from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Thinking of art as a production process enables the important points that had a great impact on it to be highlighted: the role of the customer, the perception of artistic creativity by society, the self-awareness of artists, the organization of labor, etc. During Antiquity, the fine arts were perceived as technical ones arising from the mental activity of man and embodied in his work, so they were evaluated by the same criteria as other applied crafts. Throughout the Middle Ages, the church was the main customer of an art product, and fine arts were used as an improvised means of religious didactics. Scholastic authors perceived "mechanical" arts as lower ones, as noted. A significant rethinking of fine arts and the person creating it had been taking place during the 12th–14th centuries with the advent of the private customer. Recognition of fine arts as intellectual work has also significantly changed the working conditions of artists, the evaluation and perception of the artistic product, contributed to the further development of the art market.

Teachers’ Perception and Use of Creativity Fostering Behaviour in Teaching Secondary School Biology, A Study of Gender Differences

Teachers’ Perception and Use of Creativity Fostering Behaviour in Teaching Secondary School Biology, A Study of Gender Differences

МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ КОНКУРС ИМЕНИ П.И. ЧАЙКОВСКОГО КАК ФЕНОМЕН ИНТЕРНЕТ-ТРАНСЛЯЦИИ

The International Tchaikovsky Competition has been held for sixty years and has become a tradition with an intention to renew itself. An essential aspect of this is the webcast, which, being performed at the highest level, not only develops the established democratic orientation of this competition, but makes the competition a relatively independent artistic event. The empirical base of the research is Internet broadcasting of XV and XVI competitions. Method – a comparative analysis, performed in the context of cultural knowledge. The article analyzes the features of the modern Internet broadcast of the competition, which distinguish it from previous TV and Internet broadcasts. The specific difficulties of shooting musical events related to their duration and the static of what is happening, as well as the resources that were used by the director and operators of "Medici.tv" in the creative solution of these problems, were understood. It is shown that the perception of the online broadcast of the competition is not inferior in terms of artistic criteria to the impression that the listener who attends the concert receives, but this is a different impression, not canceling, but supplementing the traditional one. On this basis, the conclusion is formed that the Internet broadcasting enriches the artistic culture. It provides the audience with new opportunities for creative perception of an artistic work. In addition, the webcast allows the art critic to carry out research on the phenomena of the performing arts at a fundamentally different level, to increase the degree of reliability of the knowledge gained. Previously, the theory of performing arts relied on an unreliable empirical research base: a single viewing and listening to a concert version of a work and memories of it. Webcasting allows multiple viewing and listening, verification of the findings, including through the use of computer programs, which allows one to overcome the degree of subjectivity that is unacceptable for science, which is inevitably present in art criticism, based on the empirical experience of a researcher attending a concert, protects against the accidents of perception that lie in wait for the listener in the concert hall. And the theory of performance objectively becomes on a par with other branches of art history - the theory of painting, architecture, musicology, studying musical notation, etc. The webcast changed the status of the Tchaikovsky Competition. Initially, in 1958, it was conceived and implemented as, first of all, a socio-political event, marking the beginning of the period of the "policy of openness" pursued by the leadership of our country. Thanks to the webcast, the competition has become a completely self-sufficient event - it exists as a “piece of art”, which you can which can be enjoyed again and again, just as we re-read works of classical literature over and over again.

PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE FACTORS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

Objective. The objective of the article is to identify the problems of innovative and creative human activity in the field of consciousness as structural elements of transformative activity in order to improve and deepen the understanding of the creative process as such. Methods. The following methods are used to study the innovative and creative factors of human consciousness: natural-ontological and socio-ontological to analyze the peculiarities of the formation and development of consciousness, axiological — while assessing the importance of creativity and innovation as characteristics for the individual, moral and ethical methods in studying the consequences of creative and innovative process for humanity in general, as well as a constructive and destructive approaches to the interpretation of the welfare state. The scientific principles of the research are the principle of objectivity (in analyzing the results of the creative process and physiological features of consciousness), determinism (used to study the forms of manifestation of activity of consciousness), systematicity (general presentation of the material is based on a holistic perception of creativity in the system of individual, physiological, social and cultural norms). Results. The studied consciousness and spheres of social consciousness show that creativity is a necessary component of human consciousness. It appears in the mythological, religious and spiritual components. The innovative is a source of understanding the creative, it reveals the essential components of creation as such. Consciousness is a litmus test of various questions that do not have an unambiguous answer, manifesting itself as both the source and the result of solving these questions. The creative component of consciousness generates different types of reality, due to modern advances in science. Innovative and creative factors of human consciousness are due to psychological, anatomical and social factors. Creativity is understood as a characteristic creative activity of consciousness, a transformative force.

Образ поколения в произведениях Ольги Брейнингер (на материале романа В Советском Союзе не было аддерола и цикла рассказов «Жизнь на взлет»)

Tis article is devoted to the study of the prose of Olga Breininger and to the observations within her writing which touch contemporary society, especially as regards the concept of “the generation”. Te paper enumerates the main features of the “generation of the 2000s”, emphasizing the importance of analysing the creative perception of the phenomenon of pain, not only as portrayed by Breininger, but also in the works of other writers of this younger generation.

СПРИЙНЯТТЯ ТА ВИКЛАДАННЯ ХУДОЖНЬОЇ ТВОРЧОСТІ ЗА ТЕКСТАМИ ХАРКІВСЬКОГО КУЛЬТУРОЛОГА ОЛЕКСІЯ СЕЛІВАЧОВА

The purpose of the article is to specify the ideological, aesthetic and ethical factors of a drastic reassessment of the value of the classics for the modernity of the beginning of the 20th century, in the period that is commonly called the Silver Age of culture. The processes of such reconsideration, where the culminating point was the vulgar sociological humiliation of the artistic classics as a result of the events of 1917, began not in the proletarian environment, but in academic circles, which subsequently suffered the most from the revolution. The relevance of the topic stems from the coverage of one of the aspects of the change in the humanitarian discourse at the stage of the revolutionary transition from one sociopolitical formation to another – exactly a century ago. The objective outlined in the purpose of the article is studied on the basis of the analysis of the scientific and journalistic activities of one of the talented young representatives of the academic Kharkiv environment, who wrote a dissertation under the guidance of Academician M. Sumtsov and considered the issues of perception and teaching of artistic creativity. The sources of the study were mainly unpublished manuscripts of A. Selivachyov, which are preserved in the family archive. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the introduction of these sources into scientific circulation. Conclusions. It has been demonstrated that the glorification of the folklore and poetic classics at the end of the 19th century was quickly replaced by a critical attitude at the beginning of the next century. And this was facilitated by a wide variety of factors, from conservative antiprogressive ideas to modernist and avant-garde intentions of radical renewal.

An investigation into the elusive concept of smart cities: a systematic review and meta-synthesis

ABSTRACT Despite almost two decades of research, authors have disagreed about the concept of smart cities. In this article, we provide a systematic review and a meta-synthesis analysis of smart cities. We find a convergence in the literature on the following primary characteristics of smart cities: (a) advanced ICT Technology, (b) sustainability, (c) innovative and high-skilled society, (d) high-tech governance and citizen participation, and (e) knowledge-based economy. Based on these findings, we suggest a new notion: A smart city engenders an innovative and qualified society, oriented towards the development of the knowledge economy, which makes advanced ICT technologies aimed at promoting sustainability and participatory urban governance. Our study robustly offers an understanding of smart cities and presents a creative perception encompassing these five principal characteristics worthy of further investigation.

Observing viewers’ self-reported and neurophysiological responses to message appeal in social media advertisements

PurposeMarketing research mainly uses self-reported method to record respondents' perceptions of creativity, and while self-reported method has its own merits, there exists some critique, particularly in terms of its ability to adequately capture the influence of message appeal on creativity. This paper studies how viewers’ responses to message appeals in social media advertisement compare in terms of self-reported responses versus responses taken through a neurophysiological method of Electroencephalograph (EEG). MethodologyTwo social media advertisements are displayed through a laboratory experiment to 17 subjects observing the subjects' neurophysiological reactions as well as their self-reported responses with regard to the commercials’ emotional, informational, and brand-related content. FindingsResults show that neurophysiological method offers unique details about emotional appeal, which the self-reported method fails to reflect. Furthermore, the neurophysiological measure identifies differences across the two target commercials in the emotional content part, which again are not identified through the self-reported method. OriginalityThis paper advances advertising research in social media literature by comparing content evaluation within advertisement through neurophysiological and self-reported measure. These findings have implications for marketers to use and measure message appeals in advertisement on social media to influence consumer response.

Linguistic implementation of author's modality in the series of novels “Manyunya” by Narine Abgaryan

The article examines the peculiarities of representation of personality of the author via linguistic means of literary text. Definition is given to the concept of “author's modality”, which implies the author’s vision, attitude, and value orientations expressed through selection of particular language means. The subject of this research is the linguistic peculiarities of literary text, which allowed the audience to portray the image of the author, and analyze the specifics of representation her linguistic personality. The goal of this research consists in determination of language means that reflects the peculiarities of the author’s linguistic personality, as well as reveal individuality and distinctness of literary style of N. Abgaryan. The research material is comprised of the partially biographical novels of the contemporary Russian writer Narine Abgaryan “Manyunya”, “Manyunya Writes a Fantastic Novel”, and "Manyunya, Ba Jubilee, and other Tribulation”. The analysis is based on the methodological toolset of the theory of linguistic personality proposed by Y. N. Karaulov, literary studies of V. V. Vinogradov, M. M. Bakhtin, L. N. Churilina, etc., dedicated to the author, analysis of linguistic personality of the character of literary work. The scientific novelty of consists in identification of specific manifestations of  author's modality on the example of works of the contemporary Russian writer, which allows fully revealing the image of a modern author. The conducted research highlights and characterize specific features of linguistic implementation of author's modality: priority concepts in the author's worldview (“family”, “time”, “memory”); individuality of creative perception and manners of the author (irony, self-irony, nostalgia, description of tastes and smells); authorial transitions (remarks, references); visual arrangement of the text. The acquired results can be used in the lectures on studying literary texts, classes on linguoculturology, linguopersonology, as well as teaching Russian to foreign audience.

НАУКОВО-ПЕДАГОГІЧНА КОНЦЕПЦІЯ Б. ЯВОРСЬКОГО У КОНТЕКСТІ МИСТЕЦЬКОЇ ОСВІТИ

In the article it is highlighted the scientific and pedagogical concept of Boleslav Yavorskiy in the context of art education. Analyzing the artistic and pedagogical activities of the outstanding musicologist, pedagogue, and musician allows significantly expanding the idea of the artist’s work and at the same time realizing its importance in the context of art education. Performing aesthetics of the outstanding artist, his musical and pedagogical views, the basic principles of building curricula and programs contributed to the formation of the conceptual foundations of music and pedagogical education in Ukraine. The artist left a scientific and pedagogical heritage in the history of national art education, contributing to the process of its formation and development. It is proved that B. Yavorskiy promoted the process of formation of musical perception and musical creativity of a child that should include five stages, which he called “implementation to creativity”: 1. Accumulation of impressions; 2. Spontaneous expression of the creative principle in visual, sensory-motor and speech manifestations; 3. Moveable, language, music improvisation, illustrations in pictures; 4. Creation of one’s own compositions (musical, pictorial, plastic, literary), providing the quality of artistic or life impressions: songs, poems, prose miniatures, plastic compositions, drawings, etc.); 5. Musical creativity – creating songs, simple pieces for piano.It is actualized the statement that uniqueness of B. Yavorskiy’s pedagogical system was provided by listening to music, considering it the basis of the whole system of music education. He believed that listening to music organizes not only musical thinking, but also feeling in the broad aesthetic sense of the word; that listening to music should involve the organization of creative attention, the release of creative perception from excessive stress, and verbal design of the auditory response should require students to serious analytical work. The basic pedagogical principles in the educational process of Boleslav Yavorskiy’s pedagogical system are outlined.Thus, analyzing B.Yavorskiy’s scientific and pedagogical concept in the context of art education it should be concluded that the peculiarities of the use of different types of art for a deeper emotional and aesthetic perception of music have played an important role in the development of musical art. Scientific study of B. Yavorskiy’s music pedagogical experience became the basis of national and world music and pedagogical education, the formation of a high moral personality.

Çocuk gelişimci ve farklı branşlardaki öğretmen adaylarının yaratıcılık algılarının farklı değişkenlere göre incelenmesi

This study aims to investigate how pre-service teachers from different majors and pre-service child development specialists understand their creativity perceptions and how these perceptions could differ based on a variety of variables. There were 316 participants selected by using the convenience sampling method. Data were collected by using a demographic questionnaire and the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS). Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis, and Spearman correlation were used to analyze the data. The findings revealed significant relationships between creativity domains and gender, previously taken creativity course, major, teachers’ attitudes towards creativity, and strategy knowledge. However, there was no significant difference between creative domains and the most creative age teachers think, class standings, and teachers’ attitudes to negative behaviors. This study indicated the importance of the majors and their curriculum. It is crucial to take steps beforehand about including creativity to the curriculum to achieve skills needed in 21 st Century.

School Students’ Implicit Theories of Creativity and their Self Perceptions as Artists

ABSTRACT High self-efficacy is important in the ability of students to express their creativity, especially in academic settings. However, the research on creative misconceptions that may be influencing students’ self-efficacy is minimal. The purpose of this study is to explore school students’ ideas about creativity, where they originally obtained them, and whether they view themselves to be creative. A survey including several statements about creativity and creative ability reveals a number of conflicting perceptions students have as well as the probability that they hold a certain idea about their own creativity and their creativity relative to others. Self-efficacy and perceptions of creativity have the potential to impact students’ ability to express their own creativity, both in visual art courses and other courses. This study shines light on where these perceptions and misconceptions are from and how prevalent they are in school students’ lives. This is particularly useful information to impact how art teachers, classroom educators, and psychologists alike interpret the creative person and teach creativity in a variety of settings.

Teacher candidate perceptions on alternative asynchronous online discussion boards

Asynchronous online discussion boards are frequently utilized as a pedagogical tool within traditional, hybrid, and online higher education courses. Research has found teacher candidates can be disenchanted with the monotonous structure of traditional asynchronous online discussion boards. In educator preparation, we claim to understand teacher candidates learn differently. Yet, the majority of assignments have a linguistic focus. This demonstration of knowledge is not effective for all teacher candidates. To support all teacher candidates, faculty can find ways to differentiate by incorporating alternative asynchronous discussion board platforms. Four platforms were compared in this study: traditional written response, video response, Flipgrid, and BookSnaps. A mixed-methods approach was used with elementary teacher candidates (n=77) to answer the following research question: 1) What asynchronous online discussion board platform enhanced teacher candidates perceptions of creativity, ability to demonstrate content understanding, student voice, and usefulness toward learning? It is important to understand the factors, which create a high-quality asynchronous discussion board experience. This research can help faculty to determine how to strengthen the asynchronous online discussion board learning experience.

디지털 이미지를 활용한 미술활동이 유아의 창의성과 공간지각능력에 미치는 영향

본 연구는 시각문화가 발전하며 일상생활에서 디지털 이미지를 읽고 활용하는 능력이 필요해짐에 따라 디지털 이미지를 활용한 미술활동이 유아의 창의성과 공간지각능력에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 그 효과를 알아보는데 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 평균 연령이 동일한 만 5세 유아 30명을 실험집단 15명과 비교집단 15명으로 나누어 10주간 총 30회 실험연구를 실시하였으며, 실험집단은 디지털 이미지를 활용한 미술활동을 비교집단은 누리과정에 기초한 미술활동을 실시하였다. 창의성과 공간 지각능력을 측정하기 위해 사전검사와 사후검사를 실시하고 그 효과성을 분석하기 위해 SPSS 20.0 통계 프로그램을 사용하여 공변량 분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과, 실험집단과 비교집단이 유의미한 차이를 보이며 디지털 이미지를 활용한 미술활동이 유아의 창의성과 공간 지각능력에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 이는 유아 주변 환경의 미적요소를 자유롭게 탐색하고 무한한 가상공간에서 표현·감상하는 미술활동이 확산적·창의적인 사고력을 길러주고 제한된 놀이 공간을 확장시켜 준다는 점에서 미술교육매체로 유아교육현장에 적극 활용될 수 있음을 시사한다.