The Rehabilitation, Employment and Follow-up Unit at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Girls, University of Baghdad, organized in cooperation with the head of the Quality Assurance and Performance Evaluation Division, Lect. D. Bida’a Tariq Abdel Wahed presented an awareness lecture in its annual curriculum entitled (Creative and Administrative Thinking).
Dr. Bida’a Tariq explains the difference between the concept of creativity, administrative creativity, and creative thinking, as the former refers to creating something new and is synonymous with innovation, while administrative creativity refers to inventing a new mechanism of work by optimally employing the available capabilities in order to reach the goal at the lowest cost and in the quickest time possible, while it is creative thinking is a person’s ability to link things or ideas that seem at first glance to be unrelated.
She emphasized that there are many ways to generate creative ideas, including creativity with clarity of purpose, thinking backwards, unusual questions, random stimuli, combination, brainstorming, re-description, and writing storming.
The elements of creative thinking were identified as originality, fluency, flexibility, sensitivity to problems, awareness of details, and maintaining direction.
This lecture achieves one of the sustainable development goals represented by the fourth goal: quality education.
