Volume 18, Special issue on Management and Social Media, 2021

The Corona Pandemic and its Effects on the Creativity Level of Students at Diyala University: A Study Applied to Students of the Faculty of Administration and Economics


Dr. Kareem Saihood Karam, Mariam Muhaibis Hemeed and Shaymma Gabbar Oleiwi

Abstract

Corona crisis adds a lot of new challenges and dangerous to all areas of life including the Education and teaching sector. In many countries, especially the third world countries, reports issued by UNESCO, the World Bank, and international and regional organizations confirm that the education sector in these countries suffers from many crises and structural, financial and administrative problems. Consequently, radical reforms and new strategies must be adopted in order to bring it out of its crises, solve its problems, and rehabilitate it to face the complex challenges of the era. From this standpoint, our current study examines the role and effect of the Corona pandemic on the level of creativity of Diyala University students. By studying the correlation relationship and determine the test of the degree of moral influence between the variables of the study. The current study includes four topics. The first topic focuses on the approved methodology. As for the second topic, it focuses on the theoretical aspects of the study variables, then the third topic focuses on the applied and practical aspects of proving the validity and honesty of the hypotheses. Finally, the fourth topic focuses on the most important conclusions and recommendations recommended by the researchers. The study is applied in practice at the University of Diyala and some of its colleges. The study reaches a set of conclusions, the most important of them is the existence of a significant and significant relationship between creativity and minimizing the negative effects of the Corona pandemic, as well as between knowing and identifying obstacles and working to address them relating to the Corona pandemic. As well as the existence of a relationship between the effects of the moral significance of the creativity variable and the effects of the Corona pandemic in the research organization. The study recommends a set of recommendations that must be taken in order to maintain a high level of creativity among university students. Among the most prominent of those recommendations. Universities should adopt a policy of raising student morale by increasing the level of trust between them and the students and not focusing on the negative aspects of performance and raising the morale of students, in addition to providing the necessary financial allocations for the advancement of the creative level. Opening horizons for scientific cooperation between all universities.


Pages: 477-492

DOI: 10.14704/WEB/V18SI03/WEB18109

Keywords: Corona Pandemic, Creativity, Ingredients for Creativity, Obstacles to Creativity.

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