공과대학생의 일상적 창의성과 창의성 교육의 방향

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore characteristics of engineering students' everyday creativity compared with those of undergraduatestudents. For this, we investigated whether there were differences in undergraduates’ everyday creativity according to majors, genderand grade. Everyday creativity can be defined as thinking and activities producing useful and suitable personal products, and to solveproblems in a new and unique ways. Thus everyday creativity is reported to be universal ability creative people can express in theireveryday life. Eight hundred and fifty seven students from three universities in three Korean regions responded to Everyday CreativityScale. Our findings show that firstly, there were significant differences in undergraduates' everyday creativity by majors and gender. Whereas there were no differences in the same survey by grade. Engineering students obtained significantly lower score of everydaycreativity as well as its sub-scales. Also, there were significant differences in everyday creativity's sub-factors by gender. Based onthese findings, practical implications for creativity education are discussed with particular attention to learner’s individual variables.