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fgjkl Internat ional Journal of Environmental & Science Education Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2008, xx-xx Secondary teachers’ conceptions of creative thinking within the context of environmental education Maria Daskolia Athanasios Dimos Panagiotis G. Kampylis Received 12 July 2011; Accepted 29 Dec ember 2011 Creative thinking in Environmental Education (EE) remains greatly under researched topic. Research on teachers’ conceptions of creative thinking within EE context is also limited, although their role in facilitating creative thinking in students is well documented. The small-scale qualitative study presented here investigates Greek secondary teachers’ conceptions of creative thinking in EE. Empirical data were collected based on non- structured interviews with 20 secondary teachers with diverse backgrounds and subject ex- pertise. Among the findings of the study is that participants view creative thinking as a thinking process that can or should be enhanced within the context of EE. All four key components identified in the literature in definitions of creativity – process, person, prod- uct, and context – are present in participants’ conceptualizations, with the most prevalent being that of process. Teachers conceptualize creative thinking as an inherent component of environmental problem-solving; they claim that EE pedagogy offers a favourable environ- ment within which it can be nurtured; and they attribute ethical dimensions to it by pairing creativity with social and ecological responsibility. The participa nts’ frames of thinking about creativity support the views of scholars who emphasize the links between EE and creative thinking and connections with broader theoretical approaches that currently domi- nate research on creativity. The study provides a starting point for further research on creative thinking within the context of EE. Keywords: teachers’ conceptions; creative thinking; environmental education; secondary education Addressing “Creativity” in Light of Recent Theoretical Approaches Research on creative thinking is an actively growing field of study with a wide array of theories and perspectives (e.g., Runco, 2007). However, despite the numerous theories and definitions of creative thinking coined by scholars from various disciplines the term still remains to a great extent elusive and vague (e.g., Kampylis & Valtanen, 2010). Shifts in the study of creativity over recent decades point not only to t heoretica l diversity in the field; they also emphasize complexity over linearity (e.g. Runco, 2004), the collective character of creative processes (Paulus & Nijstad, 2003), the “situatedness” of activities instead of the “universality” of the construct (Plucker & Beghetto, 2004) as well as its ethical coordinates (Craft, Gardner & Claxton, 2008). Among current trends in the conceptualization of creative thinking is the recognition that it is not an exclusive “talent,” related mostly to the arts and cu l- International Journal of Environme ntal & Science Educ ation Vol. 7, No. 2, April 2012, 269-290 ISSN 1306-3065 Copyright © 2012 IJESE http://www.ijese.com/

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