The Effect of Teachers’ Emotional and Perceptual Characteristics on Creative Learning

摘要

Teachers play two major roles in the educational process. First, they are expected to facilitate learning environments with opportunities for students to discover their individual talents and transform these talents into skills toward self-actualization. Second, teachers are perceived as role models encouraging students to become creative individuals in society. Teachers may face conflicts between the limitations of the cultural framework and universal educational aims. Conflicts between a teacher's cultural surrounding and universal educational objectives influence their perceptions and emotions about everyday creativity in the classroom. Perceptual and emotional processes go along, but they have different influences on teachers’ actions. The Perceptual- Emotional Model discusses the situation.