The Indoor Design Features of Girl's Technical-Vocational Schools (TVS) with the Approach to Promote the Trainee's Creativity

Nowadays, regarding to the rapid and increasing changes in the human societies, the key role of education in training, the creative generation, the need to be able to encounter with the changes, the significance and necessity of creativity and its affecting factors have become more and more obvious in education. Therefore, creativity is one of the most influential factors affecting education which integrating it with the body and ways of designing environment plays an undeniable important role. Considering the nature of Technical-Vocational Schools (TVS), as discovering, creativity and production, either in the artistic or technical perspective, a need for an environment to provide a basis to improve the creativity and enlivenment is felt. Taking into consideration the inter-disciplinary nature of issues related to designing the environment and the lack of enough theories in the field of designing to make an educational environment, the role of behavioral science, psychology and the psychology of environment in this study seem to be undeniable. So a need to investigate educational environment in terms of its influence on growth and creativity has to be strongly considered. The present study aims at achieving the criteria for designing appropriate educational environment in Girls’ Technical-Vocational Schools (TVS) with an emphasis on the environmental capabilities affecting the mind and behaviors of the young people and the emphasis on an approach to improve their creativity as well. In the present study, the survey method is based on the related literature. Moreover, based on other conducted researches in this filed, the architectural criteria for designing educational environment to promote student`s motivation and creativity have been deduced to be implemented in a way that it can promote the power of curiosity and innovation in students. The method used in the present study was both survey and practical. The population in this study included all the Technical-Vocational Schools (TVS) students in Tehran during the 2011-2012 years. Multi–stage cluster sampling has been used to find the samples. To determine the framework for sampling, first 22 districts of Tehran were considered as 22 clusters. Among these clusters, districts 2, 6, 9, 6, 13, 16 were randomly selected. And then from the existing TVS in each district only one of them was randomly selected and then from each TVS 24 to 25 art teachers were randomly selected. Fulfilling the above mentioned procedure 124 art teachers were selected as a population. In the questionnaire, it was tried to determine the variables of this study based on its purpose and the questions of this research. To do so, before preparing a questionnaire a content-purpose table was made in which the variables of each research question were specified and the questionnaire was prepared considering all those variables. Taking into consideration the effective variables in this study namely, motivation, curiosity and innovation, a three-part questionnaire was designed in which 17 questions were about motivation. These questions can be divided into two groups. The first group of questions is about the relationship between novelty in material, color and light used in the classroom and students` motivation. The second group of questions, however, is about the relationship between utilizing the composition and continuity of open and close environment and student`s motivation in creativity. It is interesting to note that 13 questions in the questionnaire have been allocated to curiosity. This part is related to questions which investigate the relationship between functional flexibilities and student`s curiosity and creativity. The remaining six questions are about innovation which investigate the relationship between utilizing varieties in the appearance and student`s innovation for creativity. To evaluate the reliability, Cronbach`s alpha coefficient was employed and the calculated coefficient was 0.83. To determine the validity of questionnaires, both face validity and content validity were deployed. After collecting the questionnaire, the collected data was coded and then was analyzed by the SPSS statistical software. Based on the type of the variables and their interrelations by using T-Test the following results have been obtained: - Creating functional flexibility in educational environment - Creating variety in educational environments - Building relationship between inside and outside of educational environment - Creating variety in the appearance of the educational environment Considering the mentioned issues, one can come up with this conclusion that the components of the physical environment lead to promotion in curiosity, motivation and innovation. It also influences on the creativity process and a creative aptitude will be flourished in an appropriate environment. Therefore, providing a suitable atmosphere can be very influential on flourishing people creativity.