Multicultural Student-to-Student Dialogue and the Generation of Creative Ideas.

CREATIVE ability; HIGHER education; CURRICULUM; STUDENT engagement; STUDENT participation; TEACHING methods

Both participation in dialog and exposure to others from different cultures have been theorized to increase the ability of an individual to be creative. This study focused on the multicultural student-to-student dialog that took place in one graduate level course. The purpose of this study was to explore how participation in this dialog might influence student creativity, specifically how the students generated creative ideas for their final course papers. No connection was found between participation in the multicultural student-to-student dialog and the generation of creative ideas for their final papers. However, insight was gained into the creative process used by students in generating their final paper ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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