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Fostering student creativity: Which teacher behaviours are helpful?
Citation
Soh, K. C., & Quek, K. S. (2004). Fostering student creativity: Which teacher behaviours are helpful? In L. C. Chew (Ed.), Innovation & enterprise: Education for the new economy: Proceedings for the ERAS Conference (pp. 61-68). Educational Research Association.
Author
Soh, Kay Cheng
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Quek, Khiok Seng
Abstract
The role of the teacher in fostering student creativity is a challenging one. Teachers have been advised to establish a classroom climate conducive to stimulating creativity, to teach creatively and for creativity, and to reward or tolerate students' seemingly zany but potentially creative behaviours and questions. What a teacher does or does not do in relation to student creativity constitutes a factor in the social context of the classroom environment, giving rise to the students' needed motivation to create and be creative. This paper presents a tool -the Index of Creativity Fostering Behaviour (CFTindex, Soh, 2000) - that provides a measure of teachers' creativity fostering behaviour. It discusses the factor structure of the instrument. A recent albeit restricted set of validity evidence suggests factor invariance. The subscales may possibly be treated separately so as to provide information on specific aspects of creativity-fostering behaviours. Areas for further research and implications for classroom practice will be explored."
Date Issued
2004
Description
This paper was published in the Proceedings of ERAS Conference held in Singapore from 24-26 November 2004