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Teaching and Integrating Creative Thinking Skills into Some Business Curriculum: A Suggested Framework

Journal of Administrative and Economics Science

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Title Teaching and Integrating Creative Thinking Skills into Some Business Curriculum: A Suggested Framework
 
Creator Al-Beraidi, Abdullah .
 
Description Creative people generates the necessary energy for any society seeking to achieve the highest level of advancement andcivilization, since creativity encompasses a set of mental and psychological attributes enabling the human beings to come up with novel anduseful ideas in any domain. This emphasizes the significance of building the creative environment in our educational, economic and culturalinstitutions. Numerous empirical studies confirmed that organizations suffer from the weakness on creativity skills of business students,graduated from management, marketing, accounting, finance departments.The main objective of the research is to contribute in the formulation of the underpinning elements of the scientific framework whichgoverns the process of teaching and integrating creative thinking skills into business education with the consideration of the civilizational andcultural factors in the Muslim and Arab world. This includes the development of a model to guide the process of teaching and integratingcreative thinking skills into curriculum generally and more specifically business curriculum. In addition, this research seeks to review andanalyze the related literature critically.This research proposed a comprehensive model including five dimensions: the materials of creativity, the creative teacher, the creativestudent, creative skills and the creative context. Each dimension has its own characteristics which must be met to attain the goals of teachingand integrating creative thinking skills into business education. Furthermore, the research suggests some business curriculum to integratecreative thinking skills into their scientific materials in the light of a predetermined criteria.Keywords: creativity – innovation - teaching creative thinking skills - business education – curriculum - civilization – culture.
 
Publisher Qassim University Academic Publishing and translation
 
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Date 2008-04-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://publications.qu.edu.sa/ojs/index.php/economic/article/view/126
 
Source Journal Of Administrative And Economics Science; Vol 1, No 2
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://publications.qu.edu.sa/ojs/index.php/economic/article/view/126/123