The purpose of this paper is to investigate and reflect the present situation of the creativity education and to suggest the better alternative approach ideas. The first investigative theme is to distinguish the meaning of correct answer from the solu...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate and reflect the present situation of the creativity education and to suggest the better alternative approach ideas. The first investigative theme is to distinguish the meaning of correct answer from the solution. The correct answer has ready made selective and one or more choices. Contrastly the solution has various responses to the problem. With this reason the man who pursues the creative ideas in education request the possible solutions of the problem. In the line with this position the writer makes such issues as definition of creativity, cognitive structure of making creative ideas and teachers` executive ability. The second theme is to discriminate the creative education between the creativity education. The former approach is to teach creativity with use of idea pulling techniques such as brain storming and synectics so on. The latter approach is to teach creativity with the contents of creativity such as the components of creativity, heuristics of the creative ideas and creative products and so on. The writer proposes some wisdoms to the creativity educators. To overcome the present limitations the teacher must pull out new solutions of the problems with existing solutions and must draw out existing experiences and knowledge to the problems in order to make new ideas. The list of disturbing limitations to creativity education is as follows; over emphasizing teaching the knowledge and information compared with learners` learning activity, hasty conclusion to the experiences as ideas, discontinuous arrangement of worksheets, limited touch of the structure of the creativity and limited uses of representation forms. With these reasons there is no criteria to decide the better creativity education programs. this is the present critical limitation of creativity education. The writer suggests some practical ideas to improve creativity education as follows; to make standardized criteria of judging good worksheet and program, to design more relevant model of creativity education, to make more flexibility oriented policy for creativity education. In the time of 8th curriculum revision above discussed ideas can be used usefully.