Professors’ Views on the Relationship Between the Curriculum of the Teacher Education and the Development of Students’ Creativity Based on the Delphi Method – Longitudinal Research

The aim of the paper is to explore the opinions of university professors about the relationship between the curriculum of Teacher Education with the creativity of students and future teachers. Professor’s opinions were gathered on two occasions, in June 2012 and December 2018. Longitudinal research was necessary for the changes that took place during the eight academic years, from 2011/12 until 2018/19. University professors commented on differences in the degree of creativity between students of the first and fifth year, compared to previously gained results in creativity tests. Since the curriculum of teacher education does not exist at the Faculty of Education in Osijek in the true sense of the word, this paper considers the document as the starting point for the realization of education under the curriculum entitled Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate Five-Year University Study for a School Teacher, even though there is no curriculum in the title. The paper represents a significant contribution (in the ideas offered) to the creation of a new curriculum. In addition, the aim of the study is to affirm the Delphi method as one of the futurology research methods that are insufficiently represented in the research of pedagogical and didactic phenomena, but also to emphasize the importance of using the original Delphi method in pedagogical research. The most important results of the conducted research indicate that the students of the fifth year of teacher education and 2011/12 and 2018/19 are more creative than the students of the first year. Conclusions are contained in the proposals made by experts for the development of the future curriculum of teacher education, which would stimulate student creativity and thus be recognizable in relation to other faculties. Also, the conclusions are also reflected in the lack of incentives for the creativity of high school students by the subject teachers