DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVITY: INTERPLAY OF BIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS
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https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i12.2015.2906Keywords:
Creativity, Biological Factors, Psychological Factors & Social FactorsAbstract [English]
One of the most common goals of the education system throughout the world refers to the development of a creative personality that could easily adapt the fast changes that are occurring in modern society. Creative attitude is regarded as the foundation stone for creative personality. Therefore, the study of factors like: biological, psychological and social that influence pupils’ creativity and creative attitude occupies a significant place within the contemporary research. In this educational context, this paper is centered on the factors affecting student’s creativity and aimed to find out the factors related to teachers, students and instructional environment. For this, the researcher used content analysis method and studied previous researches conducted to find out the influencing factors of creativity. The results indicate the key factors that can affect learner’s creativity as: factors related to teacher are personal quality, thinking style, educational experience, teaching belief, personal effort, intrinsic motivation, professional knowledge; factors related to students are fear to failure, cooperation and collaboration, family factor, competition and conflict and factors related to instructional environment are autonomy, administration support & resources and peer interaction.
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