Strategies to promote creativity in students of higher education institutions

Abstract

This research intends to contextualize the creativity in the higher education environment to offer eight applicable strategies from a teacher perspective. The existent relation between creativity and higher education is analyzed through a non-experimental descriptive analytical literature review with a qualitative approach to understand its importance in universities, to recognize the major difficulties faced in an academic environment regarding the develop-ment of creativity in students, to identify the competence based model as an empowering tool to creativity and to complete the research presenting in class strategies for teachers to rely on for a better development of creativity in students. The first group of strategies is called “conductual strategies”, referring to those related to the relationship between teach-ers and students, such as dialogue, flexibility, feedback, clarity in the relationship, creative environment and theory and practice as creativity allies. The second group is called “applica-tion of methods” considering the project and the problem based teaching methods. Conclud-ing this research, it is observed in the consulted references an on rising relevance for creativi-ty as a competence, an educational model that is applicable for its development and strate-gies that are straightforwardly useable in a classroom without undergoing major changes in the academic system.