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Revisiting the Relationships between Turkish Prospective Teachers' Thinking Styles and Behaviors Fostering Creativity

Revisiting the Relationships between Turkish Prospective Teachers' Thinking Styles and Behaviors Fostering Creativity

Ayhan Dikici
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522505044|ISBN10: 1522505040|EISBN13: 9781522505051
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0504-4.ch007
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Dikici, Ayhan. "Revisiting the Relationships between Turkish Prospective Teachers' Thinking Styles and Behaviors Fostering Creativity." Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts, edited by Nava R. Silton, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 136-157. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0504-4.ch007

APA

Dikici, A. (2017). Revisiting the Relationships between Turkish Prospective Teachers' Thinking Styles and Behaviors Fostering Creativity. In N. Silton (Ed.), Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts (pp. 136-157). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0504-4.ch007

Chicago

Dikici, Ayhan. "Revisiting the Relationships between Turkish Prospective Teachers' Thinking Styles and Behaviors Fostering Creativity." In Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts, edited by Nava R. Silton, 136-157. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0504-4.ch007

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Abstract

This chapter aims to reexamine the relationship between Turkish prospective teachers' thinking styles and creativity fostering behaviors. In the study, 182 Turkish prospective teachers were participated. The Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI) and Creativity Fostering Teacher Index Scale (CFTIS) were administered to participants. An exploratory factor analysis, zero order and partial correlation, linear and quadratic trend analysis were conducted on the data. The results indicated that Type I thinking styles are a more powerful predictor for creativity fostering behaviors than Type II thinking styles. Prospective teachers' implicit opinions about creativity negatively predicted to CFTIS. Relationship between Type I and Type II thinking styles, and creativity fostering behaviors were positively significant in the results of quadratic trend analysis; however, the relationship between implicit opinions about creativity and creativity fostering behaviors were negatively significant in the analysis. The results obtained from the study were discussed based on previous studies.

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