Views on creativity from an Indonesian perspective
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[1] University of Auckland
University of Auckland
Nueva Zelanda
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[2] Satya Wacana School of Foreign Languages
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- Localización: ELT journal: An international journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages, ISSN 0951-0893, Vol. 64, Nº 1, 2010, págs. 75-84
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
With an increasing emphasis on creativity in education and language teaching, it is important for teachers and students to examine their own views on and perceptions of creativity. What is regarded as creativity may vary from one context to another. This paper examines the perceptions of creativity reflected in the evaluation of creative poems by students and teachers in an Indonesian context. The participants evaluated short poems written by a group of Indonesian university students. This resulted in several characteristics of creativity being highlighted: honesty, reality, truthfulness, and personal value. The poems were voted on and the ones which received the greatest number of votes were also analysed. The more creative poems demonstrated higher degrees of language play and creative language use. This paper1 suggests several activities which could be conducted by teachers and students in other contexts to help them examine their own explicit and implicit views on creativity.
