Although the effective theories or models about creativity will be developed, school teachers have a lot of difficulties for applying those theories or models to their classroom activities directly. Under this problem, in this study the research focus...
Although the effective theories or models about creativity will be developed, school teachers have a lot of difficulties for applying those theories or models to their classroom activities directly. Under this problem, in this study the research focus were on the meaning of integration between creativity and the subject-matters, and on the teaching methods for enhancing students` creativity through this integration. The meaning of integration between creativity and the subject-matters were threefold; integration between teaching creativity and teaching subject-matters, between subject-matters and subject-matters, and between creativity and other thinking skills, especially logical thinking ability. Under these meanings of integration, researcher established a kind of model about teaching creativity through the subject-matters. In this model, at least five kinds of elements were considered as components of effective creativity education: the basic concept and process of creativity, learner as an input variable, curriculum and instruction planning, environment variable(including teacher), and evaluation. There are so many researches about creativity in Korea, but those researches have many problems in experimental design and the degree of integration between creativity and the subject-matters. This study was the basic research for the macro-analysis for construction the effective teaching model of creativity through(or across) school curriculum. In a following study of researcher, the effectiveness of previous researches about creativity through the school curriculum will be analyzed.