WHAT TEACHERS THINK OF DEVELOPING STUDENT’S CREATIVITY

Abstract

In response to the emerging demands and needs of the ever-changing world of today, education systems around the world increasingly focus on developing students' higher mental competencies, including creative thinking skills. Teachers play an important role in fostering said creativity in their classes and among their students. Thus, the aim of this paper is to examine the attitudes of teachers from 23 primary schools towards creativity development and their thoughts of facilitating such development in the classroom. The results show that teachers do possess knowledge to do with creativity, but when it comes to facilitating development of these skills, some aspects could use improvements.