December 2016, № 12

Moroz V.V. FOREIGN THEORIES OF CREATIVITY REVIEWThe necessity of more profound understanding of creativity which is considered to be the vital characteristic for teaching, studying and work triggered the growth of multidisciplinary scientific research. Since 1960s more than ten thousand scientific papers on creativity appeared in various journals and periodicals, more than six hundred books were published since 1990s, these figures increase with every coming year. The statistic data analysis shows that multidisciplinary concept of creativity is of great interest to the scientists worldwide. The role of creativity in a society, business, science and education cannot be overestimated but still hasn't been revealed. The retrospective analysis of foreign theories of creativity demonstrates that since the beginning of the last century there were numerous attempts to understand the concept of creativity, its components, creative process stages, the functions of both hemispheres in creative process, types of thinking. Taking into account the ambiguity of creativity phenomenon, the range of creativity viewpoints is fairly wide. Foreign theories of creativity considered in this article prove creativity to be a many-faceted and ambiguous phenomenon. Each theory deals with a particular aspect of the problem reflecting the value orientations of the scientists and though each contains the significant amount of discovery, observation and justification one cannot prove them to be exhaustive and comprehensive. It is shown that scientists still haven't come to an agreement on a definition of creativity no matter how long their research was.Key words: creativity, theories of creativity, definition of creativity.

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Author: Moroz V.V.

Year: 2016

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