1. Introduction
Name Nida Afzal Khan
Class B.Ed(hons) 5th semester
Class # 17
Subject Educational psychology
Teacher Dr.Amjid Reba
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2. Topic
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Creativity

3. Creativity
 Meaning and definition of Creativity:
1. ‘’Torrence define creativity as a process of becoming
sensitive to problems, deficiencies, gaps of
knowledge, missing elements, and so on, identifying
the difficulties, search for solutions, formulating
hypothesis about the deficiencies, testing and
retesting hypothesis and possibly modifying and
retesting them and finally communicating results.’’
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4. Continue…..
 “weisberg, springer define creative mind as One in
which a problem stimulus easily evolves material
from various experimental areas”
 Ability to produce something new through
imaginative skill, whether a new solution to a
problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic
object or form. The term generally refers to a
richness of ideas and originality of thinking.
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5. Evaluation of definition of
creativity
The person who creates.
Mental processes asserting with in the
person who creates.
Cultural and environmental factors working
on the creator.
Products of creativity, i.e. poems, painting,
theories and inventions.
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6. Conclusion of definitions
Creativity is the ability or capacity
of a person to discover and explore
new areas to create or produce a
new idea, theory or object
including the rearrangement or re
shaping of what already exist.
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7. Creativity and divergent thinking:
According to Guilford in 1959,
creative thinking means divergent
thinking and uncreative thinking
means convergent thinking.
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8. Creativity and intelligence:
 J.P.Gulford clearly distinguish between intellectual
operation of ‘divergent thinking’ (creative process) and
convergent thinking’ (which represents intelligence).
Every intelligent person may not be creative but a very
high percentage of the creative people posses
intelligence to a high degree.
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9. Creativity and age:
 Creativity starts from childhood.
 Reach to highest peak at thirty year of age,
 Start decline slowly afterward.
 Factors that retard creativity:
 social,
 emotional
 physical.
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10. Creativity and mental age:
 Guilford talks of the following mental abilities:
 Fluency, (the ability to produce large ideas).
 Flexibility ( the ability to produce a variety of ideas or
approaches)
 Originality (the ability to produce on common
responses)
 Redefinition ( the ability to define or perceive in a way
different from the usual)
 Sensitivity to problem (the ability to evaluate
implications).
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11. Creativity process:
 creative process is any process which produces
something new—an object or an idea including a new
form or arrangement of old elements.
 The new creation must contribute to be solution of
some problem.
 Torrance thinks that the process of creativity is similar
to the steps in scientific method. The central element
is the production of something new.
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12. Nature and characteristic of
creativity:
Creativity is resultant of some interaction.
Creativity is the ability to synthesize ideas or objects.
Creativity is the ability to create new ideas, theories or objects.
Creativity is the ability to develop something original.
Creativity has several dimensions.
Creativity is a process as well as a product.
Creativity is a complex, dynamic and serious process.
Creativity knows no special medium, place, person or time.
Creativity is the capacity to accept challenge.
Creativity is the freedom to exercise choice.
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13. Creativity to different people
 Creativity to the artist is the ability to bring to mind an
emotional mood.
 To the architect, creativity is the ability to develop new
approaches, forms and new materials.
 To the scientist, is the ability to explore new way of
extending knowledge?
 To the teacher creativity is the ability to discover and apply
dynamic methods of teaching-learning.
 To students, creativity is the ability to use words and
phrases in new situations to solve sum speedily, to prepare
new types of charts, to write essays and stories depicting
new ideas and so on.
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14. Characteristic of creative personality:
 Adventurous.
 Curious by nature.
 Desirous of excel
 Intuitive.
 Non-conformist.
 Visionary.
 Willing to take risk.
 Keen to explore and invent.
 Self-disciple.
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15. Role of school in promoting of creativity in
children:
 School is, in fact the proper place where an organized
effort should be made to develop the basic foundations
for creativity in children. Deliberate attempts need to
be made to develop an environment of creativity.
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16. Methods for promoting
creativity.
1. Identification of the creative child:
we may use both test and non-test technique for the
identification of the creative child.
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17. 2. Factors in the school that
hinder creativity:
 The traditional curriculum and methods of teaching
are rigid.
 The educational system largely encourages acquisition
of knowledge.
 It lays emphasis on rote memory.
 It rarely calls upon children to think.
 It usually teacher centered.
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18. 3. Strategies for developing
creativity:
 Creativity needs to be identified, energized and guided
almost from birth.
 Creativity is likely to flourish in an environment which
values independent and free thinking.
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19. 4. Types of programmes for the
education of creative children:
 Identification of the creative children from the school
population.
 Formulation of general and specific goals for guiding
creative talent.
 Providing appropriate learning environment.
 Stimulating creativity among those children who do
not apparently show it.
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20. 5. Providing creative learning
environment and experiences in the
classroom:
 Allow the students as unusual questions.
 Show pupils that their ideas have values.
 Provide opportunities to students for self-initiated
learning.
 Encourage debates, discussions, quizzes etc.
 Encourage students for self-evaluation.
 Follow brainstorming strategies.
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 Inspire the students to emulate creative persons.
 Provide for exciting experiences to the students.
 Provide a safe, permissive and warm environment.
 Provide necessary guidance and counseling for
developing motivation and overcoming emotional
fears.
 Arrange lectures of creative personalities.
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22. Q & A
Thoughts
Reflections
Questions

23. Thank you…..