A Review: Supporting Students’ Creativity in Art Design and Photography Classes in University
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Creativity has become one of the most significant learning goals in universities. However, there has been less research supporting this in photography classes compared to art and design (or other) classes. Therefore, the aim of this review article is to contribute understanding about supporting creativity in photography classes by reviewing, analyzing, synthesizing, and applying studies from art and design research to propose this research question: “What elements that help foster creativity in art and design classrooms could be applied to photography classes, and how?” We searched the literature reviews on Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar (as a secondary database) for three main keywords, retrieving 1,449 articles, then narrowing these down to 84 from the period 2010 to 2022. We applied content analysis with thematic coding to these articles and collected them into four groups with 23 themes as follows: 1) Designing creative curriculums (seven themes); 2) Constructing creative classrooms (seven themes); 3) Creative teaching (five themes); 4) Students’ characteristics (four themes). This review will also present a framework for a creative art design and photography class that covers all four categories (from curriculum, classroom, teaching, and students) to facilitate the development of creativity in university students and could be applied into other classes.
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