https://doi.org/10.31261/CHOWANNA.2002.19.08
The article concerns the problem of changing teaching towards students' creativity and their creative activity instead of the traditional model of teaching. The author presents her research results along with their methodology regarding the creative talents of children and youth. The development of creative activity and the nurturing of creative talents are inextricably linked to changes in the system of general education. Traditional “knowledge storage” is losing its significance in favor of creative processing. The existing school education system has proven to be dysfunctional. It has not satisfactorily fulfilled its social functions. It is clear that schools do not fully meet the educational needs of modern societies. They fail to shape the kind of personality that these societies demand. Therefore, the idea of nurturing a disposition toward creativity in children and young people—an inherent potential in every individual—comes to the forefront. However, this potential must be awakened and stimulated in the process of education. Every effort to broaden knowledge about creativity is highly valuable and brings us closer to achieving the distant yet crucial goal of creative education. As Roman Schulz states, the fundamental imperatives of pedagogical theory and practice should be transformed to focus on preparing students for creativity, for active and creative participation in social life, for innovative fulfillment of social roles, and for self-development. Instead of being preparation for reproduction, education should be preparation for creation. Education for replication should be replaced with education for innovation—aligned with the needs of the emerging civilization of the future and suited to the desires, necessities, and aspirations of its participants. This prompts the question: What model of education will adequately prepare people for participation in the civilization of tomorrow? Defining the essential features of the desired, future-oriented educational model is an extremely difficult task. Providing adequate answers to the increasingly frequent questions requires careful identification and articulation of the issues at hand. Most of the proposed solutions so far are largely pseudo-solutions—superficial approaches that fail to recognize, and therefore fail to address, any of the fundamental educational problems.
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Vol. 2 No. 19 (2002)
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