Developing Creative Thinking Abilities in Photographing Using Dialogues

摘要

The pre experimental research designed was employed to develop creative thinking abilities of the bachelor degree student by using dialogues. The purposes of the study were to: (1) develop and study student’s creative thinking abilities by using dialogues (2) study of the student’sopinion toward learning activities. The research instruments were (1) lesson’s dialogue method (2) the self-evaluation form of creative thinking ability (3) the attitudinal questionnaire entitled ‘an Attitudinal Questionnaire toward Teaching Methodology by Dialogue’ (4) focusgroup discussion and (5) the interview. The target group was 30 bachelor’s degree students who enrolled in the Photography course, second semester of the academic year 2016, in the Department of Educational Technology and Communication from the Faculty of Education Naresuan University.The finding revealed that (1) most of the students have creative thinking ability, after they attended learning activities and were placed on the high level. The highest average item is that they can think flexibly, many directions of ideas, ready to change and solving problems, tolerant,exposure to new experiences. (2) The overall opinions of the students toward learning activities are on a high level. They agreed that learning by dialogues created their incentives for taking a photo creatively. The focus group discussion and semi-structured interview revealed that dialoguescould develop creative thinking by group activities, which encourage deep listening, reflective thinking, and advocacy through the designing process. This process promotes students to see a different perspective, encourage observation, identify and think critically, and open a new varietyof dimension. Dialogues can coach students to think through various activities, to practice imagination that is different from the original view.