Creativity and Educational Adaptation
Creativity is the capacity of a person to produce composition, products or ideas of any sort which are novel and unique. It may involve the formulating patters and combination of information derived from past experiences and transplanting of old relationships to new situations. According to Torrance “Creativity is a process of becoming sensitive to problems, deficiencies, gaps in knowledge, missing elements, disharmonies, identifying the difficulty, searching for solutions, making guesses, formulating hypotheses, testing and retesting these hypotheses and finally communicating the results. Guilford said “Creativity is the capacity to produce ideas that are both new and useful through divergent thinking. It involves thought processes as speculation, imagination and invention. Originality, fluency and flexibility are the three important constituents of creativity. Factors involved in Creativity · Originality : It has three alternative dimensions- Uncommonness, Remoten