Creative competence of pedagogy students

The main assumption of the conducted research was to check the level of creative competence of pedagogy students. For this purpose, an empirical verification of the author’s theoretical model of creative competence was carried out. Based on the conducted factor analysis, the following components of the creative competence model were selected: the ability to think and act in a creative way, everyday (intuitive) knowledge about environmental factors conducive to creativity, responsibility and the ability to organize one’s creative process, and scientific (theoretical) knowledge about creativity. Thanks to the use of the r-Pearson correlation, it was also checked what relationships exist between the individual components of competence. The results of the research indicate that pedagogy students demonstrate a low general level of creative competence, which indicates a great need to prepare future pedagogues for creative functioning in their future professional work. Based on the conducted r-Pearson correlation, it was found that there are positive, statically significant relationships of weak strength between some of the competence components. These results demonstrate the complexity of the process of acquiring creative competence by future teachers and the need to take into account many interrelated aspects of creativity.