Factors influencing teachers’ creative teaching: A systematic review

Abstract

Creative teaching is an important skill needed by teachers to carry out the teaching and learning process. Teachers have the most important role in nurturing students’ interest and creative thinking ability by implementing creative teaching. However, there are still insufficient studies that systematically review the existing literature related to what factors could affect teachers’ creative teaching. This highlights the value of this study that is aimed to conduct a systematic literature review on the factors influencing teachers’ creative teaching. This study selected articles using two leading databases, namely Scopus and Web of Science. To ensure that this study was conducted systematically, guidelines by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analyses were used. This study found that three groups of factors influence teachers’ creative teaching, namely demographic factor, individual factor and organisational factor. There are two factors that have the highest frequency and dominant, namely self-efficacy and environment support.

Keywords: Creative teaching, demographic factor, individual factor, organisational factors, teachers’, systematic review.