Chinese students' perceptions of their creativity and their perceptions of Western students' creativity

B Wang; Ken Greenwood

doi:10.1080/01443410.2013.826345

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Chinese students' perceptions of their creativity and their perceptions of Western students' creativity

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Chinese students' perceptions of their creativity and their perceptions of Western students' creativity

B Wang and Ken Greenwood

Educational Psychology, Vol.33(5), pp.628-643

2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2013.826345

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Abstract

creativity

cross-cultural

education

perception

psychology

This paper applies the Four C Model of Creativity ('Big-C, little-c, mini-c and Pro-c') to determine Chinese students' perceptions of their own creativity and their perceptions of Western students' creativity. By surveying 100 Chinese students and interviewing 10 of them, this paper discovered that Chinese students generally perceived their creativity to be less than that of Western students. Differences on mini-c and Pro-c were larger in the direction of Western students being superior, and the items that differed in the opposite direction and those which did not differ were part of the subset of little-c items. The perceived superiority of Western students was not as strong in final-year students. Suggestions are proposed on how to nurture students' creativity within context of culture. © 2013 © 2013 Taylor & Francis.

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Title: Chinese students' perceptions of their creativity and their perceptions of Western students' creativity
Authors: B Wang (Author) - RMIT University
Ken Greenwood (Author) - Edith Cowan University
Publication details: Educational Psychology, Vol.33(5), pp.628-643
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2013
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2013.826345
ISSN: 0144-3410
Copyright note: This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Educational Psychology 2013, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01443410.2013.826345
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450511502621
Output Type: Journal article

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