GOVORNO STVARALAŠTVO BUDUĆIH VASPITAČA KAO NjIHOV POTENCIJAL U SISTEMU UNIVERZITETSKOG OBRAZOVANjA

Abstract

This paper aims to offer an overview of the creative potentials of future educators-teachers in the domain of their verbal activities. The starting point is the theoretically-founded statement that the quality of higher education is recognised by the realisation of creative programmes, and that only a creative pre-school educator can encourage manifastation of children’s creativity. The goal of this research is to determine if and in what way University students express the ability to imagine, foresee and construct certain events, in the activities that entail continuing a story which was stopped at a certain dramatic point. The results of this research could in fact confirm storytelling abilities of University students determining a segment of their verbal creativity. A descriptive method and assessment procedure were employed as research methods. By using a projective analysis, the answers of the tested students were listed and systematized. The results of the research confirm the lack of imagination and insufficiently developed verbal ability of the students, as well as a lack of original solutions in the constructions of continued stories. It is of utmost value to ensure that University professors encourage students to express their creative potential, so that they could, in their own teaching practice when working with pre-school children, recognize it as a professional competence.