2. Creativity teaching on the excessive student numbers at universities

Abstract

A multi-method design was used to generate an approach to teaching creativity in a context of excessive student numbers at universities. At the quantitative moment, the variables were identified by teachers: originality, flexibility, fluidity, divergence, motivation and innovation; establishing a deliberate sampling of six subjects, based on the response rate positive.  Subsequently, at qualitative time an appreciative interview and a direct observation from a hermeneutic-phenomenological position were used to explore the variables. Categories Emerged and generated an approach to a theoretical model of teaching creativity; that in terms of the actions contemplated: universality in classes, identification of the leader, sharing work; and in ways to develop: listening, analogies-metaphors and freedom in class. The categories and generated reflections provided teachers with strategies and tools for the excessive student numbers at universities.