Cultural factors affecting creative teaching from the teacher's perspectives of Nursing and Midwifery faculty of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Teaching-learning process is different in every culture to the perceptions and interpretations of the main actors. This article was performed to identify and analyze the culture of creative teaching in the faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. The qualitative research, purposeful sampling and saturation logic based on the theoretical perspectives of 16 faculty members were identified. Data was collected by non-structured interviews and was analyzed through coding techniques. The results were classified into five categories: student characteristics, the power distance of the teacher and student, student-teacher dependency, conserving attitude to science, emphasis on research and lack of teachers’ educational training. The results showed that teachers had different ideas about the characteristics of students and there was a clear boundary between the student and the professor stress. In addition, the findings showed that students tended directly to learn lessons from a teacher. On the other hands, students were not able to discuss and challenge in the classroom and lack of emphasis on research and education as well as other factors on creative teaching process.