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  1 - The relationship between students' problem-solving skills and creativity mediated By self-efficacy: Modelling structural equations
  Fatemeh Mahzoonzadeh Bushehri
  Abstract Today, ranking and classifying the societies and nations are based on knowledge produce which is resulted from individuals' creativity. According to Maslow, creativity can be interpreted as self-emerging as a special person by which creative problem solving ca More

  Abstract Today, ranking and classifying the societies and nations are based on knowledge produce which is resulted from individuals' creativity. According to Maslow, creativity can be interpreted as self-emerging as a special person by which creative problem solving can be increased through the best way. The main purpose of this study is to define the relationship between the skill of problem solving and creativity with moderating curricular self-efficacy. It is a descriptive-surveying research.The statistical population consisted of all students in the city of Dushanbeh, using the Cocran formula of whom 250 were selected by multistage cluster sampling. Data were collected using Happner-Peterson's problem-solving skill Inventory (1982), Owen-Froman's Academic Self-efficacy Scale (1998), and Abedi's Test of Creativity (1983). Findings showed that presumed causative model had acceptable goodness fitness and 32 percent of variance of students' creativity is explained. Also, findings showed that the skill of problem solving could positively affect the creativity and affect indirectly students' creativity through curricular self-efficacy meaning that the curricular self-efficacy could be acted as a moderator for the skill of problem solving and creativity. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Investing the concept of creativity and its educational implications in the Islamic thought
  Mohammad Nemani Masoud Safaei moghaddam Mohammadjafar Pakseresht Mansor Marashi
  Investing the concept of creativity and its educational implications in the Islamic thought : abstract Context : Education is the most complicated domain of human's activities throughout history and in which transformation and achievement has been perpetual concerns . More

  Investing the concept of creativity and its educational implications in the Islamic thought : abstract Context : Education is the most complicated domain of human's activities throughout history and in which transformation and achievement has been perpetual concerns . To succeed in this path, we must look at the effective, different sectors and factors of it. Creativity is, one of the prominent human features and is among the central issues of education. Aim : The present study asked to refer to the sources of Islamic thought, and then to conclude, describe, explain the concept of creativity and its educational implications . Methods: The research method in this study is "descriptive , analytical (interpretive). First, it looks at the meaning and concept of creativity. And by describing and analyzing it in Islamic thought , it infers its educational implications. Results: The results indicate virtue, importance and necessity of creativity, and significance of attention to it in education and training network . Man is not separate of his Creator , and each of his action is a kind of move strengthening and weakening the connection .Creativity is , whether within the area of thought or of action, is an existential topic , and it keeps man , in every moment and in a special way, to a longitudinal, lateral relationship to the whole universe . All kinds of cognition involved in this process has differences and levels, and any form of cognitive resources, tools has its peculiar effect in introducing and maintaining creativity . Moreover ,the real appearance, reliability, impact of creativity requires its coordination with the divine principles and values governing the universe . Conclusion : Understanding creativity into a good position, we will find out clarification and strength of its presence in the reasonable life and the good education . Psychology, Islamic thought and every field of science and knowledge, in various forms, insist on the need ,and remind its significance in the spiritual, material excellence and cultivation of human . Manuscript profile
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  3 - the effectiveness of creativity training program in fostering five senses in preschoolers .
  Leily Ghassemi Ali Saeedi Laleh kharazian
  This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of creativity training program in fostering five senses in preschoolers aged 5-7. The study method was quasi-experimental including a pre-test and post-test design and the control group. The study population consist More

  This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of creativity training program in fostering five senses in preschoolers aged 5-7. The study method was quasi-experimental including a pre-test and post-test design and the control group. The study population consisted of 20 children selected from two preschool childcare centers in District 6 of Mashhad in academic year 2016-17 using available sampling method. For the purpose of the study, the children were divided into two groups of 10 member, namely experiment group (children to whom researcher’s designed educational tools were presented in the post-test) and the control group (children who did not receive researcher’s educational tools in the post-test). Then, using data gathering instruments, which included Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Form B and researcher’s designed training tools intended to incorporate five senses in improving creativity of children, in two stages of the test, namely pre-test (before presenting researcher’s designed training tools to the experiment group) and posttest (after presenting researcher’s designed training tools to children of the experiment group), which was conducted over one week, the creativity of the children participating in this study was measured. After statistical analysis using descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation and standard mean error) Analysis of covariance, the results showed that creativity training program influenced the development of creativity and its four components (fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration) in children . Manuscript profile
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  4 - Effects of teaching life skills through Creativity storytelling components elementary
  Nahid Karimi Dariush Mehrafzoon Alireza Jafari
  Background: An individual’s creativity, potentials, and abilities are manifested in his thoughts, ideas, writings, behaviors, and actions and are among the fundamental requirements for today’s complicated, swift modern life. Creativity is one of the characte More

  Background: An individual’s creativity, potentials, and abilities are manifested in his thoughts, ideas, writings, behaviors, and actions and are among the fundamental requirements for today’s complicated, swift modern life. Creativity is one of the characteristics that can ideally be developed and nurtured during an individual’s early years of life. Undoubtedly, part of the educational system’s inefficiency is due to its failure to pay adequate attention to creativity. All educational systems should provide children with considerable opportunities to develop their creativity. Objective: The present study aimed at investigating the effects of life skills education through storytelling on creativity among primary schoolchildren. Methodology: The study was based on the pre-test post-test experimental design with a control group. The research population consisted of all third-grade female students attending primary schools in the City of Qazvin in 2012-2013 school year. Multi-stage sampling was used to select the sample. The sample was subsequently divided into two groups, i.e., control group and experimental group. Next, the experimental group received training in six 30-45-minute sessions. The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (Form B) was used as the data collection tool both before and after introducing the independent variable into the experimental group. The collected data were analyzed through ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) test. Findings: The findings showed that there was a significant different between the samples belonging to control and experimental groups (p < 0.05). This significant difference was observed in three components of creativity, namely, fluency, flexibility, and originality. Conclusion: The results indicated that life skills education through storytelling promotes creativity among primary schoolchildren. Manuscript profile
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  5 - Implicating Gilles Deleuze’s idea of the rhizome with a view to using it in improving the educational system in Iran
  Najmeh Ahmad Abadi Arani Mehran Farajo Allahi Ali Abdolahyar
  Background: Creativity is the driving force of modern civilization and the respond to the issues and problems that are associated with rapid technological change and social education. Therefore, developing creativity is a top priority for the world's educational systems More

  Background: Creativity is the driving force of modern civilization and the respond to the issues and problems that are associated with rapid technological change and social education. Therefore, developing creativity is a top priority for the world's educational systems. Objective: This paper is an attempt to implicate Gilles Deleuze’s idea of the rhizome with a view to using it in improving the educational system in Iran. Method: To answer the first question of research (the main concepts of Deleuze’s rhizomatic thought), the method of conceptual analysis (conceptualization) and to answer the second question (the implications of Gilles Deleuze's rhizomatic thought, to improve the creativity of the educational system of Iran), the method of deducing research have been used. Findings In Gilles Deleuze's thought, education must always be active, achievable, and multiplied. Based on such an idea, educational components such as teaching methods, teacher and student roles, curriculum, etc. will have Impressive changes with traditional education. One of the most important implications of Gilles Deleuze's rhizomatic thought in improving the creativity of Iran's educational system can be the development of horizontal and creative thinking in schools, training problem-centered student education, the provision of innovative learning models in learning-learning processes, planetary and nonlinear curriculum, and creative teacher have been discussed. Conclusion: Deleuze’s model of the rhizome can be used as a fruitful and fruitful model for innovation and creativity in Iran's educational system, since this model focuses on all creative and innovative activities that are always flexible and fluid, and necessarily focused on purposeful, Planned and structurally elusive. Manuscript profile
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  6 - Measuring the Effect of Organizational Virtue on Metacognitive Creativity
  Zahra Foroutani Atieh Bohrani Fahimeh Yazdanmehr
  Background :one of the most important sources of sustainable competencies in any system is its creative human resources and the level of progress of each society is related to its creativity. Subject: regarding the importance of the subject, the present study aims to st More

  Background :one of the most important sources of sustainable competencies in any system is its creative human resources and the level of progress of each society is related to its creativity. Subject: regarding the importance of the subject, the present study aims to study the impact of organizational virtue and its components on metacognitive creativity of high school teachers. Method: this research is applied in terms of its expected results and is descriptive-survey method. The statistical population of the study, the teachers of high school girls in khoy and the tool for measuring variables, were two questionnaires: Standard Organizational Virtue Inventory (Cameron et al., 2004) and Torrance''s Creativity Measurement (1979). SPSS and PLS software were used for data processing and analysis. Findings: findings are show that at the 95% confidence level, the structural pattern of the research has a good fit. Conclusion: the results of the path analysis show that organizational virtue and its three components (optimism, trust and sympathy) have a direct, positive, and meaningful effect on the metacognitive creativity of teachers, however, the effect of two components of coherence and forgiveness on the metacognitive creativity of teachers was not statistically significant. Manuscript profile
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  7 - The relationship between the teacher-student thinking style match/mismatch and students’ creativity dimensions
  مریم احمدی فقیه مجید ضرغام حاجبی اکرم السادات حسینی
  The present study aimed at identifying the relationship between the teacher-student thinking style match/mismatch and students’ creativity dimensions. The research method in this study is descriptive and correlation. The study population consisted of all students More

  The present study aimed at identifying the relationship between the teacher-student thinking style match/mismatch and students’ creativity dimensions. The research method in this study is descriptive and correlation. The study population consisted of all students of Ijtehad higher education institute in 1394-1395. From this population, 100 students (including 39 males and 61 females) were selected through Stratified Random Sampling approach to answer to a thinking style questionnaire as well as the Torrance Tests of Creativity. Their teachers – a group of six- were also given a questionnaire of thinking style in teaching. The Pearson correlation coefficient and the regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The findings show that, in general, the match of judicial thinking style (r=-0.34,p<0/01 ) and conservative thinking style (r=-0.42,p<0/01) have meaningful relationships with innovation and extension of creativity (r=-0/32,p<0/01). Concerning the investigation of the four dimensions of creativity, the findings of the study show that the match of the judicial thinking style (Beta= -0.35) and mismatch of the liberal thinking style (Beta =0.37) were the most predictive. The final findings of the study show that the match of the thinking styles has more relationship with creativity than the mismatch of thinking styles. In addition to develop creativity, the judicial and liberal thinking styles ought to be developed in both teachers and students. Manuscript profile