Analysis of Thinking and Research Textbook for Six Graders Based on Plsek's Directed Creativity Model

Text books, as the main components of education, can play important roles in fostering students’ creativity and creative thinking. This study aimed to assess the alignment of six graders Thinking and Research textbook content to Plsek’s (1997) Directed Creativity Model. Data were sourced and analyzed using all the exercises from the Thinking and Research textbook for newly developed sixth grade students in primary schools. Various researcher developed forms as data collection tools to analyze the selected content. Results showed that 61% of the analyzed content was congruent to Plesk’s first principle- attention (the preparation stage). Alignment to the second principle, escape (imagination and development stage) was around 39%. But the third principle- movement (practice stage) was totally ignored (0%) throughout the exercises designed to promote students’ creativity. It is worth mentioning that the principle of movement is considered as a key stage in fostering creativity according to Plsek. These finding might be of salience for curriculum developers in reviewing and re-crafting the Thinking and Research textbook for sixth grade students in order to betterment of nurturing students’ creativity through the curricula.