There is overwhelming evidence that today’s education is inadequate for responding to the demands of the 21st century and probably beyond. In order to facilitate students’ learning and education, it will be pivotal to firstly re-consider what is required from the teacher and teacher professional competency. In this paper, we argue that for education being responsive to the requirements of the d...

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...

Introduction In 1995, the authors started the Empirica Control for Technology Education (ECTE) project in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Helsinki with the purpose of widening the possibilities for creative problem solving in technology education. First, an icon-oriented visual programming tool was developed to teach computer control technology, along with an appropriat...

Background: Attention to children's nutrition is important; since they are the most sensitive and vulnerable group in the community against malnutrition and food shortages. Therefore, this study aims to design, implement, and evaluate the effect of educational programs based on (philosophy for children) on thinking skills about healthy breakfast consumption of sixth-grade elementary school stud...

the main purpose of research was analysis of agricultural educator's creativity and investigating it's relation with effective contextual variables. research method was descriptive- survey and applied-developmental methods were used. statistical population consisted of agricultural educators of agricultural education centers in kermanshah province (n=60) that studied by census method....