Concerning the Development of Creative Thinking in Art Teachers-to-Be
Creativity is a highly demanded and pragmatic quality of personality in the modern world. The development of holistic personality is inextricably intertwined with the improvement of art abilities and competence in agile thinking and problem-solving. Future art teachers training becomes relevant today as they have to solve the problems related to methods, mechanisms, and technology of students’ creativity development. The concepts of creativity and creation are updated in the modern educational environment for these purposes. The mental traits of the concept are always wider than linguistic representation. In a broad sense, creativity refers to the flexible intellectual abilities associated with divergent thinking, a large amount of memory, strong imagination and intuition, and improvisational skills. Creative thinking is regarded as the ability to develop and implement new technology that intensifies all types of activities, to introduce technical, artistic, and social innovation. It is treated as one of the most significant abilities in modern education as well.