On the role of gender, state of residence and ethnic background of teachers in their creativity styles

Creativity as an important factor in education has long been the focus of attention and many studies were conducted on its impact on the effectiveness of education. Accordingly, the present study intended to investigate the relationship between gender, state of residence and ethnic background of high language teachers and their creativity styles. To this end 011 teachers from several cities of East and West Azerbaijan were randomly selected. The data gathered through Creativity Styles Questionnaire (Kumar & Holman, 0991) revealed that there is significant difference between male and female teachers in using creativity styles. Also, there were significant differences between teachers in two states of residence and ethnic backgrounds.

کلیدواژه ها:

creativity style ، classroom ، teacher ، gender ، ethnic background ، state of residence