The effectiveness of training interactive thinking pattern on implicit knowledge and creativity of teachers

Thinking grounds and thinking power are among the issues that play an important role in the knowledge of teachers. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching interactive thinking model on the tacit knowledge and knowledge creation of primary school teachers. The research was a semi-experimental and pre-test-posttest with control group. The statistical population consisted of all elementary school teachers of district one of Baharestan City in the academic year 2018-2019 with 695 students. 82 of them were selected by multistage random sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental groups (41 subjects), (N = 41) and control (n = 41). Data were collected using the standard knowledge of implicit knowledge (2012) and knowledge creation questionnaire (2002). The content validity of the questionnaires was confirmed and the reliability of the implicit knowledge and knowledge creation questionnaire was 0.78 and 0.96، respectively. Data analysis was performed in two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS software. The results of this study showed that interactive thinking education has a significant effect on tacit knowledge and knowledge creation of teachers (P <0.05), and it increases the tacit knowledge and knowledge creation in elementary school teachers, therefore attention to interactive thinking model plays an important role in improving tacit knowledge And has a teacher of teachers.