关键词: 中德教师, 创造力内隐观, 比较

Abstract: Implicit theories of creativity are constructed by people (whether psychologists or laypersons) that reside in the minds of these individuals, derived from their beliefs systems about creativity. A lot of researches indicated that individuals of different cultural and different environments have different beliefs of creativity. This research try to examine Chinese and Germany teachers core characteristic of creative students, whether to have domain-specific. Moreover, we explore the cultural influence to Chinese and Germany teachers beliefs of creative students. The researcher collected some adjectives that former studies had proved to describe creative person, and developed an adjective checklist which was made up of 59 adjectives as the instrument to examine teachers belief of creative students. 465 Chinese and Germany teachers participated this research.The results showed: There might be some universal core characteristics of creativity shared by people in all societies, such as originality, imagination, also have some domain-specific characteristics of creativity, such as divergent thinker, like challenges, curious, willing to try.The Chinese teachers are inclined to see collectivist and humor as characteristic of creative students, but the Germany teachers are inclined to see aesthetic and individualism.The Chinese teachers are inclined to see cooperative as characteristic of creative students, which accord with moral component; and see not rule-bound as characteristic of non-creative students.