The research was concerned with the study of motivation for creativity. The goal was to assess motivation for creativity in design students based on the Cognitive Orientation theory which defines motivation as a function of a set of themes identified as relevant for creativity. It was expected to find differences in the scores of the themes between more creative and less creative students, as a...

aim and background: education has devoted a great amount of the budget of every country to itself. it is necessary to provide an appropriate organizational climate and calm and stress less environment in educational section to improve the organizational effectiveness of personnel, which will finally lead to the their creativity. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship betw...

No ability is more valued in the modern innovation-fueled economy than thinking creatively on demand, and the "thinking cap" capacity to augment state creativity (i.e., to try and succeed at thinking more creatively) is of broad importance for education and a rich mental life. Although brain-based creativity research has focused on static individual differences in trait creativity, less is know...

The last two decades, researchers explored teachers’ implicit theories, perceptions or beliefs about creativity related issues, as they thought they are complimentary to researchers’ explicit theories. Although implicit theories’ studies recruited mostly K-12 participants, a research gap was noticed in literature concerning this kind of research in specific domains of knowledge or school subjec...

Creativity is one of the competencies required in order successfully to meet challenges across the life span. After defining the broad concept of creativity and its relevance in education, this paper discusses the outcome of a literature review on creativity in collaborative learning across the different stages of an individual’s development, with a specific focus on the use of ICT as a means o...

Design is a discipline of innovation: its essence is the creation of something new and unique. An assumption has been that the inclination and ability of a person to respond in novel and useful ways is largely inherited. Present research refutes this view, and it is now believed by many that, however creativity is defined, it is a form of behaviour that can be taught. Acknowledging this point l...