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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
The Effect of Future Thinking Curriculum on Future Thinking and Creativity of Junior High School Students
Min-Ying Tsai1,2, Hsin-Tai Lin2
(1. Zuoying Junior High School, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;
2. Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)
Abstract: The main purpose of the study was to investigate the future thinking curriculum effects on the future thinking and creativity for junior high school students. A static-group comparison design was employed.Thirty-six ninth grade students from a local junior high school participated in the experimentation with three-unit learning activities, each unit took 45 minutes. Students’ responses in Future Thinking Checklist, Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and feedback questionnaire were collected and compared with t-test statistical analyses. The
major results were as follows:
(1) The future thinking curriculum had significant effects on enhancing creativity ability of junior high school students, including the elaboration and title ability. Eighty percent of the students expressed creative ideas beyond reality in the learning sheet. More than fifty percent of the students thought that the curriculum could inspire their creative imagination ability. They also pointed that they had confidence to use their creative imagination in the future.
(2) Eighty percent of the students felt positive for the future and thought that the curriculum could improve their plot construction, past review and future prediction. Ninety percent of the students could predict the changes in the future. Sixty percent of the students thought that the curriculum could be helpful to predict the changes in
the future and improve prospective thinking.
(3) Eighty percent of the students could express their future life which they want to achieve. More than fifty percent of the students understood how to have a wonderful life and made it come true through the curriculum.
Key words: future thinking, creativity
