The impact of using electronic mental maps to develop creative thinking of students in the design of expressive clothes

Abstract

E-Mapping is an active learning strategy and an effective tool for memory enhancement and retrieval and generating new and unfamiliar creative ideas, where it helps to accelerate learning and knowledge discovery faster by drawing a blueprint that illustrates the basic concept and the main ideas and subsidiary and conducts this self-learning activity, From this, the idea of the research was determined in an attempt to develop the mental maps in accordance with the expressive fashion design course for the students of the master program in the clothing and textile department at the Faculty of Home Economics, King Abdulaziz University, through the use of electronic mental maps in the development of creative thinking of students in the design of expressive clothing, the problem of research has been identified in the following questions:

1. What is the possibility to use of electronic mental maps in the design of expressive clothing?
2. What is the impact of the use of electronic mental maps in the development of creative thinking of students in the design of expressive clothes?

The aim of the research was to use electronic mental maps in the design of expressive clothing, and measuring the impact of the use of electronic mental maps in the development of creative thinking of students in the design of expressive clothes, and to highlight the role played by mental maps strategy in the educational situation in opening the way for students to recognize and express their creativity and express it.

The research followed the semi-experimental approach using one-set design (pre/ post) with the aim of identifying the impact of the independent variable (use of mental maps) on the dependent variable (creative thinking of female students).

The experimental study was applied to the number of (9) students of the master's program in Specialty (Fashion Design) at the Department of Clothing and Textiles, Faculty of Home Economics, King Abdul Aziz University. Using the scale of creative performance of students (tribal / post). The results showed that the statistical value of "z" is a function at (α≤0.05) level, indicating a statistically significant difference between the average scores of the experimental group's students in the tribal and post application on the scale of creative performance (as a whole) In each component of its components (fluency, flexibility, originality) in favor of the post-performance, Thus, the researcher can accept the hypothesis, which states: There is a statistically significant difference at the level (α≤0.05) between the average grades of the students of the experimental group in the tribal and post application on the scale of creative performance (as a whole) In each component of its components (fluency, flexibility, originality) for the benefit of telemetry. the researcher can attribute the disparity in performance on the scale of creative performance (as a whole) to the effect of processing using the electronic mental maps in which the researcher used appropriate teaching methods to achieve the objectives of specific teaching positions, in which the students move from teaching method to another method.

The researcher recommended the application of the study in the mental maps to other courses that need to acquire knowledge skills to improve the teaching process, and to search for and focus on all that is new and new in the educational process, especially the modern teaching strategies and conducting similar research in clothing and textile courses.

Keywords: Electronic mental maps, Creative thinking, Design of Expressive Clothes, Clothing and Textile students, King Abdul Aziz University