The Inner Creative Thinking Blockages of a Group of Malaysian Student Teachers

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The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore the inner blockages of creative thinking of a group of 224 student teachers from the Specialist Teacher Training Institute, Kuala Lumpur. Two instruments, “The Story-Writing Test” and “The Two String Test” were used to collect data. The results indicated that the majority of the subjects’ creative thinking (87.95%) was seriously blocked by stimulus fixity, one of the inner blockages of creative thinking. The finding implied that the lecturers of these student teachers should help them to unblock this inner blockage, before enhancing their creative thinking skill.

Stream: Teacher Training and Professional Development

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Dr Chua Yan Piaw is a senior lecturer of the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He obtained his Bachelor of Science (Chemistry), Master of Science (Pedagogy), and PhD (Pedagogy) degrees from the University of Putra, Malaysia. He is the writer of four academic books published by the McGraw-Hill Education (Malaysia). The titles of the books are “Creative and Critical Thinking Styles” (2004), “Research Methods” (2006), “Basic Research Statistic” (2006) and “Research Statistic: Data Analyses for Ordinal and Nominal Scales” (2008). He has presented several research papers in local and international seminar and conference.