The Role of Community Colleges in Developing Creativity and Innovation Skills of Vocational Students ( The University College of Applied Science as a Case Study)

Asmaa  Abusamra

doi:10.35516/hum.v49i2.1817

Authors

Asmaa Abusamra Humanities Department

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i2.1817

Keywords:

Innovation, creativity, community colleges, vocational education, curriculum, management, policies

Abstract

This study aims to identify the role of community colleges in developing innovation and creativity skills among the students who are enrolled in its vocational programs from their point of view according to the study variables of gender, age and province in the second semester of the academic year 2018/2019. Furthermore, it sheds lights upon the efforts paid by community colleges in order to develop the skills of innovation and creativity in their various vocational programs. In order to achieve the study purposes, the quantitative method is used and a questionnaire as a study tool has been developed, distributed among the study sample and analysed by (SPSS). The results indicate that the arithmetic average of all the questionnaire’s items reaches (3.98) and thus the relative weight is (79.65). This means that there is a great deal of agreement on the questionnaire in general. The study also showed that there are no statistically significant differences between the averages of the study sample responses in all areas of the questionnaire for the role of the University College of Applied Sciences in developing innovation and creativity skills for vocational students according to their views, which are attributed to the variables of the study with the exception of age and province .The study recommends the need to provide a range of physical and moral facilities in the vocational institution’s environment, which support the enhancement of the creativity and innovation growth of technical and academic staff, vocational curriculum and the management practices and policies

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