Vol. 11, Special Issue 1 (2022)

Author(s):
Sumit Sheoran, Bimla Dhanda, Krishna Duhan and Joginder Singh Malik

Abstract:
Education is an engine for growth and progress of any society and country. Numerous challenges are faced by 21^st century education system despite the implementation of teaching various and learning approaches. In the pre- technology era, most teachers employed teacher - centered learning method. There are lots of studies which show that traditional teaching methods are no more applicable to the current younger generations and many of such educational institutions are moving ahead by applying creativity and innovation based strategies in their teaching and learning. But very few researches study the impact of learners’ home environment variables on their creative abilities. This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between creativity and home environment. Information has been collected through questionnaire-cum-interview schedule by the researcher and data gathered was analyzed by using SPSS. The study found that there were significant differences among adolescents’ seeing problem abilities, unusual uses fluency, unusual uses originality, blocks originality and inquisitiveness across their family type. In addition, there were significant differences in respondents’ unusual uses flexibility and unusual uses creativity across parenting style adopted by their parents.