| Abstract [eng] |
Educational dimensions of creativity and creative thinking are researched in the dissertation on theoretical and empirical levels. The research shows that creativity (process and its result) is affected by the following factors: motivation of the author, entirety of personal features and character traits, abilities, thinking, scope of thinking inertia, special and general knowledge, reconstructive and constructive imagination, intuition, author’s behaviour, emotions, physiological and psychological state, social and physical environment. Dynamic and component models of creativity process, prepared by the author, are presented in the dissertation. 655 research participants participated in the empirical research: 601 5th-11th form school learners and 54 teachers. 2 subtests by E. E. Туник (2002) assessing creativity parameters and a questionnaire designed by the author were administered to the research participants. The change of creative thinking was determined in its ontogenesis (from 11 to 62 years of age). Peculiarities of learner creative thinking were revealed (originality, flexibility of thinking, abundance of ideas) in groups according to age, gender, birth order, learning progress and place of residence. The research shows that originality of creative thinking reaches its peak at the age of 18, afterwards it decreases during adulthood. (p=0.000). The existence of positive direct statistically significant relationship between all parameters of creative thinking and personality interest in learning (p<0.01) and interest in art (p<0.05) were also found. Statistically significant relations between parameters of creative thinking and needs for self-education were determined. The research revealed a positive correlation between reading books and originality of thinking (p<0.05) and a negative correlation between hours spent at watching television and playing computer games and all parameters of creative thinking (p<0.01). |
