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Creativity: What does it mean to teachers? : A cross-cultural comparison
Citation
Soh, K. C. (1999). Creativity: What does it mean to teachers? A cross-cultural comparison. In M. Waas (Ed.), Enhancing learning: Challenge of integrating thinking and information technology into the curriculum: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Educational Research Association (pp. 572-577). Educational Research Association of Singapore.
Author
Soh, Kay Cheng
Abstract
East-West cultural difference in the concept of creativity has in recent years become a concern of creativity researchers. Two groups of teachers with different cultural backgrounds were compared on their beliefs of the meanings of creativity. From their responses to a list of descriptors, six interpretable factors were obtained: Aesthetics, Divergence, Product, Association, Inventiveness, and Imagination. Differences were found for Divergence, Association, and Inventiveness, where the English teachers have higher means. Implications for the development of creativity, teacher-student relation, and classroom discipline are discussed.
Date Issued
November 1998
Description
This paper was published in the 1999 Proceedings of the ERA Annual Conference held at Plaza Parkroyal Hotel, Singapore from 23-25 November 1998