Creativity level of hearing impaired and hearing students of federal college of education.
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2019-01
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Faculty of Education, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey
Abstract
The emphasis in education currently shows a shift from the acquisition of facts to the process of thinking. Critical thinking involves cognitive activities associated with using the mind. It allows Students to excel and achieve intellectual freedom thereby becoming a functional member of the society. This study investigated Creativity Level of Hearing Impaired and Hearing Students of Federal College of Education, Oyo. Specifically, the study investigated the creativity level of hearing and hearing-impaired students. Also, the relationship between gender and onset of hearing Loss and students’ creativity level were found out. A descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. A purposive sampling technique was used to sample a total of 150 (90 and 60 hearing and hearing impaired) NCE 2 students of the Department of Education who participated in the study. A researcher-designed questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.76 was used to collect data for the study. The collected data were analyzed using mean and t-test statistics at 0.05 alpha level. The Findings showed that the creativity level of hearing-impaired students is significantly higher compared to their hearing counterparts. It was revealed that female hearing impaired students significantly show a higher level of creativity than their male counterpart. Also post-lingual hearing impaired students are significantly higher in creativity level than their pre-lingua counterparts. Based on these findings, it was recommended that mainstreaming approach of providing education services adopted by Federal College of Education Oyo should be strengthened and adopted in all Institutions where hearing and hearing impaired attend. Also, healthy competition as against stigmatization should be encouraged between hearing impaired and their hearing counterparts to his/her maximum creative thinking level.
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Creativity, Hearing impaired, critical thinking, institutions, mainstreaming