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Implicit theories of creativity: A comparison of student-teachers in Hong Kong and Singapore
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- Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 38(1), 71-86, 2008
- Routledge
- 2008
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Post-Secondary Education
- This study attempts to uncover the beliefs regarding various aspects of creativity among trainee-teachers in Hong Kong and Singapore. Trainee-teachers from Hong Kong (N = 188) and Singapore (N = 127) completed a questionnaire on beliefs about creativity. The 30-item questionnaire covering 15 aspects of beliefs regarding creativity was presented to the respondents as a set of six-point Likert scales. Through factor analysis, creativity was found to have five dimensions: (1) physiology, (2) generality, (3) culture, (4) individuality and (5) youth. Hong Kong respondents were found to hold more rigid views of creativity than their Singaporean counterparts. In particular, Hong Kong respondents believed more strongly that creativity is dependent on birth order, effort, health, logical thinking and youth and that there is a critical period beyond which creativity may not develop. [Copyright of Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057920701419959]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 03057925
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/65cc0a37
- 2010-09-24
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