Are Pedagogical Students More Creative than Students of Non-Pedagogical Programs?
Keywords:
creativity, gender, pedagogical and non-pedagogical orientation of study, university students
Abstract
The study aims to explore whether there are significant differences in self-assessed creativity between pedagogical and non-pedagogical students, the potential connection between creativity and pedagogical or non-pedagogical study orientation, whether the pedagogical or non-pedagogical orientation of studies influences creativity, and additionally whether there are significant differences in self-assessed creativity between the genders, related to the results of creativity self-assessment. The results showed no statistically significant differences in creativity between students according to gender or according to whether they were pedagogical or non-pedagogical students. We can conclude that the expression of creativity is likely to be influenced by many other factors.
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Van Goch, M. (2018). Creativity in liberal education before and after study commencement. In Domenech, J., Merello, P., de la Poza, E., Blazquez, D., Peña-Ortiz, R. (Eds.) 4th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’18), 1475-1483. Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia.
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2022-06-16
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Zemljak D., & Ploj Virtič M. (2022). Are Pedagogical Students More Creative than Students of Non-Pedagogical Programs?. Journal of Elementary Education, 15(2), 199-210. https://doi.org/10.18690/rei.15.2.199-210.2022
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