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Elementary art teachers' beliefs about creativity

Andrea Andiliou

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Fostering creative behavior appears as an educational goal in many national education curricula.However, creativity is marginalized in schools and it is not identified, enhanced or assessed systematically.Teachers' beliefs should be examined and comprehended since educators have been identified as one of the environmental factors which determine in what degree students' creative potential will be fulfilled.The present study focused on Cypriot elementary art teachers' beliefs about creativity, as no previous research study examined art teachers' perspectives on creativity, even

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Fostering creative behavior appears as an educational goal in many national education curricula.However, creativity is marginalized in schools and it is not identified, enhanced or assessed systematically.Teachers' beliefs should be examined and comprehended since educators have been identified as one of the environmental factors which determine in what degree students' creative potential will be fulfilled.The present study focused on Cypriot elementary art teachers' beliefs about creativity, as no previous research study examined art teachers' perspectives on creativity, even

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Fostering creative behavior appears as an educational goal in many national education curricula.However, creativity is marginalized in schools and it is not identified, enhanced or assessed systematically.Teachers' beliefs should be examined and comprehended since educators have been identified as one of the environmental factors which determine in what degree students' creative potential will be fulfilled.The present study focused on Cypriot elementary art teachers' beliefs about creativity, as no previous research study examined art teachers' perspectives on creativity, even

Key concepts: Creativity, Mathematics education, Pedagogy, Psychology, Epistemology, Social psychology, Philosophy

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