This document discusses fostering creativity in higher education. It explores different levels and perspectives of creativity concepts from the individual to societal level. It also references a framework with three dimensions - science, person, and practice. The document outlines a study that interviewed professors and conducted an online survey of teachers to understand their conceptions of student creativity. The study found teachers associate student creative achievements with six facets: self-reflective learning, independent learning, showing curiosity and motivation, learning by creating something, multi-perspective thinking, and reaching original ideas.

1. Tobias Haertel / Isa Jahnke / Johannes Wildt
Fostering Creativity
in Higher Education
Tobias Haertel, Isa Jahnke, Johannes Wildt
ICED 2014
16-18 June 2014, Stockholm
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2. Tobias Haertel / Isa Jahnke / Johannes Wildt
What is creativity?
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3. Level of Perception on
Creativity Concepts
Individual level
Psychology
Societal-cultural level
Sociology
Praxiological level
Didactical Design
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4. Level of Perception on
Creativity Concepts
The observer perspective matters!
…what is new?
…for the individual learner?
…for the group of learners
…for the local communities?
…for the society?
…for researchers?
…
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5. Reference system for HE
Science
Person
Practice
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6. Pressure to be creative?
The demand on creativity
reflects the process of a
“dissolution of the
boundaries” of Arts into
many different fields of
culture and society…
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7. Tobias Haertel / Isa Jahnke / Johannes Wildt
What are the teachers‘ conceptions
on student creativity related to learning?
How do the teachers perceive creativity of
students?
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8. Tobias Haertel / Isa Jahnke / Johannes Wildt
DaVinci (2009-2011)
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Qualitative approach
Step 1
• 10 Interviews: creative teachers (prof of the year,
teaching award winners, Top5 „meinprof.de“)
• 10 Interviews: UAMR teachers educational science
Step 2
• Online survey, n=1844

9. Tobias Haertel / Isa Jahnke / Johannes Wildt
Tobias‘ Folien
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•question any information given
•break out of receptive habitus
•“students don‘t act repetitively“
...self-reflective
learning
•search for relevant literature on
their own
•make their own decisions
•“students find their own
research questions“
...independent learning
•all measures that contribute to
increased motivation
•support learners to be curious
•“students are enthusiastic“
...showing curiosity
and motivation
•learning by creating a sort of
product (presentation,
questionnaire, machine,
website…)
•“students act like researchers “
...learning by
creating something
•interdisciplinary thinking
•to look automatically from
different points of view on an
issue
•“students overcome prejudiced
thinking“
…multi-perspective
thinking
•cannot be forced
•prepare to be as ready-to-
receive as possible
•“students have original, new
ideas“
…totally new, original
ideas
“What is a creative achievement of your students?”
A creative achievement by my students is seen in…
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10. Creativity Differences
Across Disciplines
Educational Science
focuses on…?
Computer Science
focuses on…?
…finding the problem …solving the
problem
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11. Claudius Terkowsky & Tobias Haertel17/06/14
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“What can you do to foster
creativity?
To Do
Working in Small Groups
One group per category

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DaVinci
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Quantitative approach:
• UAMR online survey: all teachers
• n=296 participants
• 52% male, 48% female
• 69% scientific assistents, 19% professors, 12% lecturers
• 48% participation in higher education workshops

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Creativity in HE
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365
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Self-reflective learning
Independent learning
Curiosity and motivation
Learning by doing
Multiperspective thinking
Reach for original ideas
Does not fit
Students' creative achievements assigned to the 6 facets of of creativity
in higher education
n=1.844 utterances by teachers

14. References
Main publications in GERMAN
Isa Jahnke & Tobias Haertel (2010): Kreativitätsförderung in der Hochschule – ein Rahmenkonzept.
In: Hochschulwesen. Universitätsverlag Webler. 3/2010, S. 88-96.
2010_Jahnke_Haertel-Hochschulwesen.pdf (288,1 kB)
Tobias Haertel & Isa Jahnke (2011): Wie kommt die Kreativitätsförderung in die Hochschullehre? In: Zeitschrift für
Hochschulentwicklung, ZFHE, Jg.6 / Nr.3 (Oktober 2011). S. 238-245.
2011_Haertel_Jahnke_ZFHE-Kreativitätsförderung.pdf (436,4 kB)
Isa Jahnke, Tobias Haertel & Michael Winkler (2011): Sechs Facetten der Kreativitätsförderung in der Lehre –
empirische Erkenntnisse. In: S. Nickel, CHE (Hrsg.), Der Bologna-Prozess aus Sicht der Hochschulforschung. Analysen
und Impulse fuer die Praxis. Online. S. 138-152.
2011_Jahnke_Haertel_Winkler-CHE-Kreativität.pdf (227,9 kB)
Isa Jahnke, Tobias Haertel, Volker Mattick, Karsten Lettow (2010):
Was ist eine kreative Leistung Studierender? Erfahrungen eines Medien-gestützten kreativitätsförderlichen
Lehrbeispiels. In: D. Engbring, R. Keil, J. Magenheim, H. Selke (Hrsg.): HDI2010 – Tagungsband der 4. Fachtagung
zur »Hochschuldidaktik Informatik«. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam. S. 87-92.
2010_Jahnke_Haertel-etal-HDI.pdf (127,2 kB)
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15. References
Publications in ENGLISH
Tobias Haertel, Claudius Terkowsky, Isa Jahnke (2012). Where have all the inventors gone? Is there a lack of spirit
of research in engineering education curricula? In: Proceedings of ICL-IGIP 2012, Interactive Collaborative Learning.
26-28 September 2012, Austria.
2012_Haertel_Terkowsky_Jahnke_Where_have_all_the_inventors_gone.pdf (949,8 kB)
Isa Jahnke (2013). Teaching Practices in iPad-Classrooms: Alignment of Didactical Designs, Mobile Devices and
Creativity. In International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (ijMBL), July-Sept 2013, Vol 5, No 3, pp. 1-17.
on ACADEMIA.EDU
Isa Jahnke (2011): How to Foster Creativity in Technology Enhanced Learning. In B. White, I. King, & Ph. Tsang
(Eds.), Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments: Present and Future. Springer. pp. 95-116.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20392-3_6.
2011_Jahnke_creativity-in-White.pdf (355,2 kB)
Isa Jahnke & Julia Liebscher: (2013). Towards a Didactical Design Using Mobile Devices to Encourage Creativity.
In: Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences 5(1), 51-64. DOI: 10.11120/elss.2013.05010051.
Journal website http://journals.heacademy.ac.uk/toc/elss/5/1 ,
PDF-Download from http://journals.heacademy.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.11120/elss.2013.05010051 and
PDF 2013_Jahnke_Liebscher_ELSS.pdf (295,8 kB)