Table 1 The ‘5-Category-Model’ – conceptualizations of student creativity by lecturers in our survey
No. | Category | Examples given by lecturers |
|---|---|---|
1. | Self-reflective learning | • Understanding own learning itself/ reflection on own learning growth • Representing the own further development • Analyzing the own learning output (learning product) • Combining several concepts into a meaningful arrangement |
2. | Independent learning | • Dealing with new aspects • Own acquisition of knowledge • Independently conducted products/assignments • Finding arguments that go beyond the literature (rationales, arguments, connections) |
3. | Showing curiosity and motivation | • Enthusiasm for the topic/subject/discipline • Exchange ideas about new things that have been tried out • Lively discussions • Critical examination of the objects and topics and questions we deal with (critical thinking) |
4. | Producing something | • Creating a learning video about all the modules they had in the course of study • Filming a teaching sequence that they have planned independently • Creating a role play in computer science class for the installation of a router • Writing a good, perhaps unexpected, critique, e.g., of a subject being taught |
5. | Reaching for original, new solutions | • Adapting newly acquired knowledge to their context and derive new possibilities for action for themselves • Extraordinary ideas in well-known issues • Creation of a transfer performance for your own teaching, with new, exciting links • Out of the box thinking |