The Development of the Creativity in the Education of Adults

Abstract

In the work of a university teacher occupies creativity a significant place and is expected that teacher will be able to use it both in professional research activities and in performing other nonpedagogical and pedagogical activities. For example, a college teacher needs for optimal performance of his/her profession in addition to his expertise pedagogical competencies and competences for creativity. However, the reality is much more complicated. Teachers are at the same time required activities that are routine, unattractive, purely formal, and creativity throbbing, causing energy loss, stress, apathy, and blocking creative thinking. The teacher is then forced to activate creativity to make much more effort with not always a positive result. We therefore asked the following questions: Does the teacher help to be creative? Is it possible to motivate them to make creative efforts? To implement education that was supposed to encourage their creativity, we used the “Engineering Pedagogy” course, which the university teachers under take at the Vysoké škole báňské – Technické univerzitě Ostrava in order to gain or deepen pedagogical competencies.