CREATIVITY IN THE ROMANIAN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

In today's global context, creativity is a social need, being the only inexhaustible resource on the planet and its only hope. The school, as the main educational agent, has the responsibility to prepare the new generations, to form autonomous and creative personalities, able to anticipate the future, transform the present in the direction of expectations and resolve the situation together with others. To master this special mission, modern education provides an action-oriented methodology, promoting interactive methods that require mechanisms of thought, intelligence, imagination and creativity. In this approach, it must be taken into account both the fact that every child has a creative potential and the fact that this potential differs from one person to another, and its development is done differently, even under the action of the same techniques and stimulation methods. This article presents a study, based on the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, conducted in order to determine the index of creativity in adolescents, assessing the factors of creativity, and identifying the variables that influence it