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Cracking the Creativity Crunch: Understanding Creativity for Outdoor Leaders in Adventure Programming

Vosler, Matthew S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1557421932155276

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Curriculum and Instruction (Education).
In adventure programming, there are a variety of conceptions for professional competencies necessary for professionals to cultivate. Creativity is a key skill as we move forward in the 21st century and is often misrepresented in the literature on adventure programming or completely missing. The drive behind this dissertation to address this shortcoming in the literature and work toward determining how creativity may change as outdoor leaders mature. The purpose of this dissertation is to determine what constructs associated with creativity are present in adventure programming and how these constructs vary based on demographic differences among outdoor leaders. The literature review focuses on outlining how creativity is present in the literature on adventure programming and how creativity is conceptualized in other social science research circles. A through discussion of the interplay between creativity and adventure programming is present. To understand how creativity manifests itself in adventure programming the five subdomains of problem solving, divergent thinking, creative self-efficacy, motivation, and general creativity are thoroughly explored and the Creative Outdoor Leadership Scale was developed to measure creativity levels across demographics in adventure 4 programming. A number of outdoor professional agencies were ultimately included in the study at both a pilot level (n=28) and in the final analysis (n=226). The study found that both divergent thinking and creative self-efficacy was a significant predictor of maturation of outdoor leaders in the sample especially between assistant instructors and senior level staff. Independent samples t-test and one way between subjects ANOVA were used to see how these groups change over time. The exploratory factor analysis found a four-factor model that highly correlates with the proposed subconstruct model proposed in this study. Future study recommendations and implications for this study are also discussed.
Bruce Martin, PhD (Committee Chair)
Gordon Brooks, PhD (Committee Member)
Eugene Geist, PhD (Committee Member)
Andy Szolosi, PhD (Committee Member)
155 p.
Adult Education; Education Philosophy; Educational Leadership; Environmental Education; Epistemology; Psychology; Recreation; Sociology; Teaching
creativity; adventure programming; outdoor leadership; exploratory factor analysis; outward bound; leadership; maturation

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  • Vosler, M. S. (2019). Cracking the Creativity Crunch: Understanding Creativity for Outdoor Leaders in Adventure Programming [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1557421932155276

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vosler, Matthew. Cracking the Creativity Crunch: Understanding Creativity for Outdoor Leaders in Adventure Programming. 2019. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1557421932155276.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vosler, Matthew. "Cracking the Creativity Crunch: Understanding Creativity for Outdoor Leaders in Adventure Programming." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1557421932155276

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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