Enhancing Teacher Creativity Using Digital Technology

Abstract

The paper focused on how teachers enhance their creativity in secondary school using digital technology in secondary school studies. The study adopted the phenomenological approach by Gadamer and Csikszentmihalyi process of creativity. The paper presents an overview of teachers’ lived experience that reveals the specific behaviour enhancing teacher creativity. The paper indentifies the factors enhancing teacher creativity while using digital technology. The paper concludes that teacher creativity is enhanced by the inner teacher creative personality characteristics, the external institutional forces, and the social environment where the teacher operates in. it means that using digital technology in secondary school studies allows teachers to be involved in the study process while the success of such teacher involvement is sustained by the creative personality traits and environment which support creativity.

Keywords: Teacher Creativity, Creative Personality, Digital Technology, Social Environment.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-27-03

Publication date:September 30^th 2019