Combating the classroom imagination deficit: Increasing pre-service teachers’ ideation self-efficacy for more creative teaching and learning

Ideation, the capacity to conjure and develop ideas is a crucial part of creativity, creative teaching and learning. However, one of the key impediments to teachers’ creativity in the classroom is low ideation self-efficacy. Teachers with low ideation self-efficacy tend to avoid modelling the creative process of generating, developing and communicating ideas with their students. Therefore, an imag…