Creative thinking in the higher university field. A review study

Abstract

 This work addresses the review of publications on creative thinking, in the university environment, during the period from 2015 to the present. Documents on this topic were extracted from databases such as EBSCO, ProQuest, PsycBooks, Scielo and Alicia. With the information found, a content analysis was carried out, organizing thematic fields such as creative thinking in the teaching-learning process, as a psychological construct, in relation to social variables and its psychometric evaluation. Finding that since it is a multidimensional and complex variable, it is investigated from different angles, highlighting that most of the investigations are directed to the educational field, focusing on the role of the teacher as a facilitator of creative thinking in university students; There are also research aimed at understanding and explaining the construct itself, its development, and in relation to other variables such as personality, motivation, and from the neurosciences; as well as the psychometric evaluation as a construct, and finally to investigate it from the social context that surrounds the individual. Thus, it is evident that creative thinking in the university environment constitutes a field of interest for science; since it is there where professionals will be forged who, through creativity and innovation, will build better societies, overcoming the challenges that current and future times put in front of them.