Abstract:

This research, in the frame of the views of teacher candidates, has been carried out in order to determine the level of being open to change and that the imagination explains creative thinking The study group of the research consists of 413 teacher candidates who study at Konya Mevlana University (Turkey), faculty of education in the autumn semester of the 2011 -2012 academic year. The data of the study have been acquired by the scales of creative thinking, being open to change and imagination that were developed by Goldberg. The confirmatory factor analysis of the scales and the model has been made with AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures) 16.0. It has been determined that, according to the result of the mediation test, being open to change creates partially influence of mediation between imagination and creative thinking. On the other hand, it has been pointed out that imagination with the mediation of being open to change has had a positive effect at a higher level on creative thinking.

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