Creative teaching of creativity teachers: Polish perspective

The article presents basic information on the strand of psycho-pedagogy of creativity—a unique perspective on creativity teachers’ education in Europe and the world. Psycho-pedagogy of creativity is a major in pedagogy studies, run in Poland, at the Warsaw Academy of Special Education. Our aim is to educate specialists who are open, sensitive and well prepared content-wise in identifying and developing children's and youth's creative potential. We also aim at introducing the studies that function in a wider social context, and presenting the situation of Poland after systemic transformation. It seems that information of this type may prove interesting to researchers and practitioners that deal with education of creativity.     

Assessment of creativity: Resolving a mid-life crisis

Assessment of creativity is reviewed with special focus on applications to education and instruction. A variety of existing instruments are described along with general criticisms of creativity measurement. A view to the future is offered which attempts to look beyond creativity's mid-life crisis. In addition to continued psychometric development of cognitive and affective tests, surveys, and inventories, alternative assessment methods and models derived from modern cognitive theories of learning and memory have much to offer the field. We end our analysis with a set of guidelines for teachers and other education professionals to use to assess creative thinking skills and with several recommendations for future research and development in creativity assessment.     

在教育教学活动中努力培养学生的创新意识

培养学生创新意识是学校的重要任务。需要校长具有创新精神，激发教师的创新性，有创造性集体气氛，使学生产生最佳的创造力。学校应将培养学生创新意识渗透于教育教学活动中。     

实验教学与创新能力培养

实验教学是培养学生创新能力的重要途径,但传统实验教学还存在着许多与创新教育不相适应之处,这就要求我们必须加强实验教学改革,大力提高教师队伍的教学创新能力,从教育观念、教学内容、教学方法、考核机制等方面对实验教学进行创新,从而探索出一条通过实验教学进行创新教育的新路子。     

The assessment of creativity for people with autism spectrum disorder

The term “creativity” can conjure various ideas and meanings. It's no surprise that methods for measuring such a concept vary widely and are not without controversy. This is particularly true among people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who are a unique yet incredibly diverse group of individuals. This article provides an overview of the assessment of creativity among individuals with ASD. Findings among studies that have sought to determine whether individuals with ASD are more or less creative than their neurotypical peers are mixed, yet the authors propose that intentional development of creativity in all youth, including those with ASD, can be beneficial.     

Classroom contexts for creativity

Various factors influence the development of creative potential, including everything from individual differences to the kinds of experiences and opportunities that creators experience throughout the lifespan. When it comes to nurturing creativity in the classroom, the learning environment is one of the most important factors – determining, in large part, whether creative potential will be supported (or suppressed). In short, classroom context matters. It is one thing to recognize that the classroom environment impacts the development of creative potential, it is quite another to understand just what it takes to develop an optimally supportive creative learning environment. This is because many of the features of optimal learning environments are quite subtle and even counterintuitive. In this paper, we discuss insights from the research on how teachers might establish a creativity-supportive learning environment in their classroom.     

教育中,什么在妨碍创造

创造教育是重要的 ,但是 ,十分必要的是 ,应弄清楚现有的教育中有些什么在妨碍创造。事实上 ,妨碍创造与创造教育的因素并不少 ,如独立个性的缺乏 ,社会本位的强旺 ,教育民主的贫弱等等。这些障碍不消除 ,创造教育将实际上离我们很远     

创新能力的培养与《机械设计》教学

课堂教学的根本目的就是提高教学质量,而激发学生的积极性和创造性又是提高教学质量的关键。通过分析当代大学生的听课心理特征,结合《机械设计》课程,在拓宽学生的知识面,培养他们创新能力方面做了一些尝试。     

Releasing the socio-imagination: children's voices on creativity,capability and mental well-being

With increasing concerns in the UK about the positive mental well-being and flourishing of children, this research, using drama and creative writing with primary school teachers, children and a theatre company, looks at the links between creative processes and children's well-being. This pedagogy applies a capability approach and we use this lens to examine children's critical reflections on the project. Interview data highlight the link between agency, social imagination and subjective well-being. The study offers some concrete examples of the ways in which creative processes can move beyond an outcome-based understanding of the curriculum by offering a legitimate space for children to explore their values and develop competencies which are crucial for well-being in the 21st century.     

数学课堂教学中培养学生问题意识的探索

问题意识是学生创造性思维的表现。本文借助实例,从四个方面阐述了在数学课堂教学中如何培养学生的问题意识。由于问题意识的培养是一个渐进的过程,因此教师应长期坚持,这样才会有所收获。     

Teacher behaviors that foster creativity

The literature on teacher behaviors that influence the development of creative abilities in children was reviewed. A historical overview of the concept of creativity within an educational context served to highlight the importance of the role of the teacher in providing the type of classroom environment that is conductive to creative learning. Teachers who show a humanistic philosophical orientation, have developed their own creative competencies, and implement specific creative methods and techniques in their classroom are more effective in enhancing students' creative abilities than teachers who follow more traditional instructional approaches.     

美育与创造能力的培养

美育在创造能力的培养中具有特别重要的作用,审美在科学创造和发明中具有突出的启迪功能。美育有助于创造能力发展的生理机制在于通过开发右脑使大脑两半球得到协调发展,使它们各自的功能得到互补和充分发挥;其心理机制在于美感作为自由感受具有自由直观的因素,这种因素培育着直觉思维能力,而这种能力正是开启创造能力的钥匙。     

Teaching for creativity: from sage to guide to meddler

This paper serves three purposes. First, it makes a case for seeing creativity as a key learning outcome in our times, and thus the core business of education. It then goes on to examine the nexus of creativity and pedagogy, showing the conceptual work done to demonstrate creativity as a learnable set of dispositions and capabilities. Finally and most importantly, the paper argues the value of a pedagogical approach the author calls “Meddling-in-the-Middle”, in augmenting and enhancing the repertoires of “Sage-on-the-Stage” and “Guide-on-the-Side” in order to build students' creative capacity. Examples are given of what these meta-approaches might look like in relation to the teaching of Shakespeare. The author concludes by arguing the important connection between Meddling pedagogy and creative capacity building.     

谈高职院校实验教学改革与学生创新能力的培养

实验教学是培养学生创新能力的重要环节。通过分析高职院校实验教学的现状,从改革实验教学方法、内容和手段等方面阐述学生创新能力的培养。     

简论研究性学习与创造教育

研究性学生是实施创造教育的有效途径与方法，创造教育是研究性学习的基础和条件。研究性学习与创造教育是相互促进，相辅相成的。     

The problem of engineering creativity in Russia: a critical review

The problem of technological creativity in Russia is briefly discussed. Special attention is paid to the development of indigenous engineering corpus in unfavourable conditions and some reasons for engineers’ low creativity are revealed. The Soviet system of engineering higher education (HE) is criticised as not focused on fostering creative engineers and the existing HE system as a degraded relic of the Soviet one. Continuous education and training in advanced corporations engaged in innovations seems better suited for preparing engineers.     

Breaking the habit: engineering students’ understanding of mathematical creativity

ABSTRACT

In higher education, engineering students have to be prepared for their future jobs, with knowledge but also with several soft skills, among them creativity. In this paper, we present a study carried on with 128 engineering undergraduate students on their understanding of mathematical creativity. The students were in the first year of different engineering first degrees in a north-eastern Portuguese university and we analysed the content of their texts for the question ‘What do you understand by mathematical creativity?’. Data collection was done in the first semester of the academic years 2014/2015 and 2016/2017 in a Linear Algebra course. The results showed that ‘problem solving’ category had the majority of the references in 2014/2015, but not in the academic year 2016/2017 were ‘involving mathematics’ category had the majority. This exploratory study pointed out for ‘problem solving’ and ‘involving mathematics’ categories and gave us hints for teaching mathematics courses in engineering degrees.     

儿童创造力的测量与评价简析

人们对创造力的理解不一,导致儿童创造力测评的许多困扰.目前儿童创造力基本上是从创造的作品、人和过程三方面衡量的,包括结构性的客观测量和带有一定主观性的开放式测量.儿童创造力评价应注意将专家评价与校园评价、静态评价与动态评价、教育评价与发展指导、评价与元评价结合起来.     

浅谈在体育教学中学生创新能力的培养

学校体育教学在培养学生创新能力方面扮演着其他学科无法替代的角色．体育教学的改革应随着社会对人才素质的需要而不断深入．体育教师应在不断提高自身素质的同时，深入研究课堂教学的内容和方法，更新观念，着重从唤起学生的创新意识，鼓励学生的创新精神和培养学生创新能力的措施、途径等方面着手，努力将学生培养成为当今社会真正需要的创新型人才．     

The relations between acculturation and creativity and innovation in higher education: A systematic literature review

This systematic literature review focuses on research findings from 20 peer-reviewed studies on the relations between the constructs of acculturation and creativity as well as acculturation and innovation in higher education. The overall research findings suggested a primarily causal relation between acculturation and creativity through statistical modeling. However, acculturation was also found to be correlated with and predict creativity. Moreover, attributes of acculturation discovered to engender creativity included multicultural learning experiences, individualistic culture type, homogeneous cultural dyads and the acculturation strategy of biculturalism. In contrast to its well-founded relation with creativity, acculturation was tentatively found to be a positive and significant predictor of innovation. This review highlights the strength of acculturation aspects, particularly biculturalism and the integration of contrasting cultural ideas, in influencing the ability to be creative or innovative in postsecondary environments.