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ERIC Number: EJ1474685
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jun
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-0175
EISSN: EISSN-2162-6057
Available Date: 2025-03-12
Creative Learning and Expression in College Classrooms across Different Cultures
Journal of Creative Behavior, v59 n2 e70013 2025
Creativity and learning have long been connected in scholarship, with emphasis on developing and facilitating personal creativity. For this Fulbright-sponsored, exploratory qualitative study, I aimed to understand how college students construct meaning of creativity where contextual constraints exist using Kaufman and Beghetto's Four C Model of Creativity. Based on an international case study, the research question was, What forms of student creativity might emerge in constrained college classroom environments? I describe creativity concepts and provide an application from my program Creativity Under Duress in three countries. Methodologies were adapted from educational psychology to discover whether creative expression could manifest in difficult situations. Undergraduate and graduate students (N = 152) in education and humanities courses participated in four creative activities: written response to prompts, personal creativity essay, 3D paper poster, and 4-Cs presentation script. Student responses to my intervention paradoxically showed genuine creative engagement despite high-pressure, test-driven contexts and with time limits on each activity. This was the greatest outcome associated with revealing creativity in classrooms across different cultures.
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: 1Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Virginia Tech, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, School of Education, VTCRC, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA