EDUCATIONAL CONDITIONS FOR STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY FORMATION

The work presents the experience of theoretical and empirical research of the formation of students’ creativity; the concept of “the formation of creativity” is characterized in a pedagogical context. Creativity in this research is considered as a common universal ability to creativity to some extent inherent in every person. In terms of pedagogical approach, the essence of the concept “creativity formation” is defined by meaningful and technological components of the educational process.

Within the framework of this research, pedagogical conditions for the formation of students’ creativity are consideration of the age characteristics and individual differences of the students, organization of safe creative space, development of imagination and teacher’s creativity. Age characteristics and individual differences of the students are defined by the innate characteristics, psycho-physiological characteristics, and personal characteristics. Of particular importance is the organization of pedagogical interaction of all the subjects of the educational process in the form of free creativity (creation of samples and support of students’ creative behavior, positive attitude to research creative activity, realization of creative initiative and emotional expression). Development of teacher’s creative activities is a required condition for successful development from the stage of imitation to creative revealing of the learner’s personality.

The study identifies substantial pedagogical and technological components of the formation of the personality creativity. This paper discusses the types of creative technology: active learning techniques, interactive, and game technology. The authors present the examples of methodological techniques for planning the lessons that are used at the first stage of empirical research. They describe such forms of students’ creativity development as exhibitions in a study group, a creativity-oriented lesson, training exercises, non-traditional lessons.

The results of empirical studies have been presented, during which the program of formation of students’ creativity containing a variety of creative techniques, forms, and methods of work contributing to the positive dynamics of all indicators of creativity formation (fluency, flexibility, originality) has been implemented. Positive dynamics of all indicators provides proof of the effectiveness of this experimental program, which was ensured by the complex of pedagogical conditions.