Creativity: Asset or Burden in the Classroom?
| Autor: | V. L. Dawson, Erik L. Westby |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts
media_common.quotation_subject Significant difference Creativity School teachers Perception ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Developmental and Educational Psychology Personality Psychology (miscellaneous) Asset (economics) Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Creativity Research Journal. 8:1-10 |
| ISSN: | 1532-6934 1040-0419 |
| DOI: | 10.1207/s15326934crj0801_1 |
| Popis: | Two studies were conducted to examine teachers' perceptions of creative students. Study 1 was based on earlier works that identified personality characteristics associated with creativity. The prototypicality of these characteristics as they applied to creative children was rated by college students. Elementary school teachers were then asked to rate their favorite and least favorite students based on these characteristics, There was a significant difference between the teachers' judgments of their favorite and least favorite students on these measures. Judgments for the favorite student were negatively correlated with creativity; judgments for the least favorite student were positively correlated with creativity. Students displaying creative characteristics appear to be unappealing to teachers. Study 2 explored the conflict between the results of Study 1 and teachers' self-reports that they enjoy working with creative children. Teachers' concepts of creativity were different from concepts that have guide... |
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