Reading to think creatively (COVID-19). Relationship between reading and creativity in teachers in training

ABSTRACT

The objective of this work is to analyse the correlation between the perception of creativity in the scholarly domain of 316 primary teachers in training, the creative flexibility shown by their final products (video-reviews) of a transdisciplinary didactic sequence implemented in three subjects from the sociolinguistic field. (Language/Literature and Geography/History), and its conceptualization of reading. The didactic sequence was structured by the critical reading of the novel Ensayo sobre la ceguera ("Assay on blindness”), by José Saramago (1995) and the reflection around it in relation to the situation experienced during the confinement in 2020 due to the pandemic generated by COVID-19. This aimed at enriching these teachers in training's conceptualization of reading, which was evaluated with a pretest-postest. There were significant correlations between the level of reflection shown and the creative flexibility of the products, but not between creative flexibility and the self-perception of creativity or their relationship with academic reading. Results show a poor conceptualization of reading, which has been stimulated from the didactic sequence with the clear revaluation of the reflective-didactic use of literary texts, with statistically significant differences between pretest and postest. All this indicates the educational performance of the educational proposal and the relevance of insisting on transdisciplinary approaches uniting critical reading and creativity in a natural and effective way. © 2022, AUFOP. All rights reserved.