Creativity in Scholarship and Teaching

Abstract

The goal of this project is to compare and contrast how educators in different disciplines think and talk about creativity in their own scholarly work and in their teaching. Faculty members grouped into three categories by discipline, arts/humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, each participated in a structured group interview. Each group was asked the same set of questions about their personal creativity in scholarship, how they address creativity with their students and in their teaching, and their definition of creativity. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed to examine similarities and differences between disciplines in how each addresses creativity.