مستوى الخصائص السلوكية الإبداعية للطلبة الصم والسامعين في كلية التربية في جامعة العين بدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة

Ziyad Kamel  Ellala; Khawlah M.  AL-Tkhayneh; Najeh Rajeh  Alsalhi

doi:10.35516/hum.v50i5.923

Authors

Ziyad Kamel Ellala College of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Ain University, UAE https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5683-9081
Khawlah M. AL-Tkhayneh College of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Ain University, UAE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1034-5382
Najeh Rajeh Alsalhi Humanities and Social Sciences Research Center (HSSRC), Ajman University, Ajman, UAE; Nonlinear Dynamics Research Center (NDRC), Ajman University, Ajman, UAE; Department of Education, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8807-4527

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v50i5.923

Keywords:

Creativity, creative behavioral characteristics, the deaf

Abstract

Objectives: The study aimed to identify the level of creative behavioral characteristics among deaf and hearing students in the College of Education at Al Ain University in the United Arab Emirates.

Methods: The sample of the study consisted of (99) students, divided into two groups. The first group consisted of 46 hearing students composed of 25 males and 21 females, and the second group of deaf students consisted of 53 deaf students composed of 25 males and 28 females. The study sample was selected non-randomly during the academic year of (2021/2022).

Results: The study showed that that the creative behavioral characteristics among students were ranging from medium to high degrees. From students’ perspectives, the study also showed that on top of those characteristics came ambiguity, sensitivity to problems, independence, intuition, adventure. Next, came the following creative behavioral characteristics: fluency, imagination, details, curiosity, originality, flexibility, and sense of humor. The study showed that there were no differences in the arithmetic averages of the different creative behavioral characteristics according to gender, and the results indicated that there were statistically significant differences for the creative behavioral characteristics according to the student's category variable (deaf, hearing) in favor of the hearing students.

Conclusions: The study recommends the necessity of employing activities, and questions in the curricula to help students develop new solutions and concepts to nourish a sense of originality and become unconventional thinkers.

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