K29

KURSUS LITERASI MAKLUMAT

Information Literacy Course
GIG 1004

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DISEDIAKAN OLEH / PREPARED BY

NAME: TAN YONG SHENG
NO MATRIK: CIC180060
GROUP: K29
Introduction
Creativity is an essential aspect of teaching and learning that is influencing worldwide educational
policy and teacher practices and is shaping the possibilities of 21st-century learners. The way
creativity is understood, nurtured, and linked with real-world problems for emerging workforces
is significantly changing the ways contemporary scholars and educators are now approaching
creativity in schools. Creativity discourses commonly attend to creative ability, influence, and
assessment along three broad themes: the physical environment, pedagogical practices and
learner traits, and the role of partnerships in and beyond the school. This overview of research
on creativity education explores recent scholarship examining environments, practices, and
organizational structures that both facilitate and impede creativity. Reviewing global trends
pertaining to creativity research in this second decade of the 21st century, this article stresses
for practicing and preservice teachers, schools, and policy makers the need to educationally
innovate within experiential dimensions, priorities, possibilities, and new kinds of partnerships in
creativity education.

Creativity implies more than simply involving imagination or fancy. It signifies and brings along
novel, original and valuable outcomes for the individual or society. While the imaginative person
is a dreamer, the creative person moves the world forward. To this effect, (s)he needs to have a
powerful background of information and education, a powerful basis of differentiated
assessment systems, whereby the production of values should be possible and assessable. The
interest in creativity has extended over industry, business, education, research, science.
Creativity benefits from extensive extra psychological supports: reconsideration of Occidental
cultures, of relaxation, medication techniques; recourse to archaic thinking with its dominant
features, related to myth, archetype, image, lateral thinking; preoccupation for language and
unconventional communication, based on analogy, metaphor, synecdoche. In recent times, a
new science emerged, neuro pedagogy, which emphasizes the asymmetry and
complementariness of the cerebral hemispheres, the bioelectrical rhythms of the brain, the
synaptic mediators, the lateralization dominance. The information are not equally managed by
the two hemispheres: the left one is mostly verbal, logic, serial, sequential, semantic, it quenches
the orientation reflex, it has two truth values and it operates in digital code; the right one is
spatial, it deals with itineraries, locations, human figure and expression, being affective, it
operates in analogical code, it is synthetic, it makes remote associations and thinks most times
laterally, divergently, metaphorically.

SEARCH STRATEGY
There are a lot of importance of creativity in education. I learned how to research on this topic
by going through 4 steps to get all the needed information from various sources. Starting with
Part A, we recognized the concept for the question which is ‘creativity’ and ‘education’ then
come out with synonyms for both words. The alternative words we came out with for
‘creativity’ are ‘imaginativeness’ and ‘inspiration’ while the alternative words for ‘education’
are ‘schooling’ and ‘study’. We organized the words and came up with a search statement
which is (Creativity) AND (Schooling OR Study) and (Imaginativeness OR Inspiration) AND
(Education).

Using the search statement from Part A, we proceeded to Part B. I searched for
materials through the Pendeta Discovery by accessing it through University of Malaya library
website (http://umlib.um.edu.my) and clicked on the Pendeta Discovery. I managed to
find two theses and a book that are relevant to our topic. All the materials can be found in
the Central Library.

Proceeding on with Part C, I was assigned to search for six records from the online
databases that have been subscribed by University of Malaya. The online databases can be
accessed by logging into the library portal with our membership identification number and
clicking on the list of databases given. The records we found were journal articles from
different databases such as Cogent, Emerald and JSTOR.

Next was Part D, we were asked to search for articles using the search engine. Using
the concept and search statement, we searched for articles on Google Scholar and found
journal articles and one document from organization.

Lastly for Part E, we collected all the records from Part A to D and provided citations
for each record. We checked our citations using the EndNote and compiled all the records.
We also wrote an introduction for our topic based on the information we found from the
records.
OBJECTIVE

a) Identify the function of creativity in education.

b) Identify importance of creativity in education
c) Identify good effects of creativity in education towards the children.
Discussion / Conclusion
Instilling creativity in education area is important to nurture better younger generation with
creative thinking. As our society needs a lot more innovations due to the advancement of
technology, it is important to implement creative education in order to shape a more creative
young generation.

Some say the traditional teaching method will produce a more productive generation in
working area in the future. But to me, it could have the positive side, but there is also a
negative side. With traditional method of teaching, it may be easier to produce a young
generation of high productivity but with the trade-off of losing their creativity in doing jobs. It
may be due to they were taught to memorize the knowledge instead of truly understanding it.
It causes the younger generation to lose the ability to adapt the knowledge depending on
different circumstances they had faced in future working area.

Through implementing creative teaching in education system also encourage life-long

learner. By having creative teaching in education system, students will tend to have more
passion in learning as they tend to enjoy thinking out of box when they wish to investigate into
particular area of study. This made them to be more consistent in learning new skills than those
who only study for high grades. Eventually, they will be determined to become a life-long
learner in studying new knowledge.

However, there are still query on this creative teaching. It is because for implementing
policy of creative education could also mean that there is no standard quality control for the
students as we do not have the exact measurement for the creativeness of the students such as
paper exams. This will cause a problem that students will tend to neglect their study as they
might not have to pass the standardized test if policy of creative education is implemented.

Hence, it seems that even though creative education bring a lot of benefits, but the
policy of creative education is still imperfect to be conducted as it does bring query for the
parents that their children would neglect their study if they have no exam to attend.