Using the Six Action Shoes to Foster Creativity and Innovation Among Some Nigerian National Youth Service Corps Members

• 作者: Rotimi A.Animasahun
• 来源期刊: 美中教育评论：B
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: SIX Action SHOES technique creativity and innovation skills NATIONAL YOUTH Service CORPS (NYSC)members unemployment crime rate
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（11）
• 页码范围: 818-825
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: G4

摘要

The study examined the importance of creativity and innovation to mankind and wondered that despite the fact that every human being has a deposit of creativity in him/her that could make individuals to live successfully in life, many still live an idle, fruitless, confused, and frustrated life. This is often common among the youths who are expected to be the future leaders of the nation, hence, the problem of unemployment has aggravated to an alarming level leading to an incessant high rate of crime in Nigeria due to the fact that people have failed to nurture and develop their creativity. The study therefore investigated the effect of the Six Action Shoes creativity technique in fostering creativity and innovative skills among the National Youth Service Corps （NYSC） members in Nigeria. The study made use of pre-test/post-test quasi experimental design whereby a randomly selected sample of 70 members of the NYSC cutting across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria whose ages ranged from 21-30 （M= 26.4） were randomly selected from two local government areas of Oyo State. They were assigned to the experimental and control groups based on balloting. Both groups responded to a creativity and innovation rating scale to collect their pre-test as well as post-test scores. The experimental group was subjected to six weeks of training in the utilization of the Six Action Shoes lasting for two hours per week, while the control group waited for their turn later. At the end of the exercise, the 35 members in the experimental group remained intact, while only 32 members in the control group completed the exercise. The one-way analysis of covariance （ANCOVA） was used to test the only hypothesis generated for the study at the 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that there was a significant main effect of treatment on the Youth Corps＇ creativity and innovative skills, which means that the participants exposed to treatment scored significantly better than the control group on the creativity and innovative