What is the creative teacher like? A descriptive study from the voice of the students

Abstract

The creative potential of students is an attitude that should be encouraged from the educational environment. Promoting creative learning and teaching is a challenge for the agents responsible for this task: teachers, since the educational context is the most appropriate place to deliberately develop creativity. Teachers play an important role in the development of creative education, and this can be identified on the basis of specific characteristics and strategies deployed in the teaching-learning process.

The study presented is cross-sectional, descriptive and with a mixed design. Two instruments were used to collect information: 1) in a quantitative phase, a Likert questionnaire was applied to 565 students from primary, secondary and high school educational centers in the province of Segovia (Spain). 2) In a qualitative phase, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 50 students from the general sample. The students' perceptions regarding the presence of creative teachers in the educational centers, the characteristics that students identify in them and the influence they have on their learning were analyzed.