THE EFFECT OF DRAMA EDUCATION ON PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS' CREATIVITY

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dc.contributor.authorOzdemir, Soner Mehmet
dc.contributor.authorCakmak, Aygen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T16:45:08Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T16:45:08Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.departmentKırıkkale Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractA number of studies of the effects of drama on individuals' cognitive and affective characteristics have been carried out recently. These studies revealed that drama had positive impact on students' development of communication skills, socialization levels, development of emotional intelligence, social skills, empathic skills and empathic tendencies regardless of the grade levels of the students. In the present study, the effect of drama education on creativity of prospective classroom teachers was examined. As the method of this study, experimental design, which is based on pre-test and post-test, was used. In the research the study group consisted of 78 the 4th grade students (50 females and 28 males) who attended the Primary School Teacher Education Program at Elementary Education Department of Faculty of Education, Kirikkale University in fall semester of 20062007 academic year. The data in this study was gathered through Torrance Test of Creative Thinking-Figural Form A. TTCT-Figural, Form A was applied on the participants before and after Drama Course, and their pre-test and post-test scores were compared accordingly. Results of the study showed that at the end of the Drama Course, the scores of creativity test the students took increased to some extent in all of the dimensions of creativity test, which are fluency, originality, elaboration, resistance to premature closure and abstractness of titles. It was also found out that participants' pre-test and post-test creativity scores did not make a significant difference according to gender variable. Recommendations of the study include that drama should be an essential part of all teacher education programs, and more research should be performed focusing on the effects of drama on students' various intellectual skills and attitudes.
dc.identifier.endpage30
dc.identifier.issn1694-609X
dc.identifier.issn1308-1470
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage13
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/25593
dc.identifier.volume1
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000409773500002
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEskisehir Osmangazi Univ, Fac Education
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Instruction
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241229
dc.subjectDrama; creativity; prospective classroom teachers; Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT)
dc.titleTHE EFFECT OF DRAMA EDUCATION ON PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS' CREATIVITY
dc.typeArticle

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