Uloga učitelja i mentora u poticanju kreativnosti
The role of Teacher and Mentor in fostering creativity

Summary/Abstract: The aim was analysis of consensualy evaluated creative person’s products – work of Adila Pašalić-Kreso, full-time member of the Academy of Science and Arts in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Based in Investment Theory of Creativity (Sterneberg and Lubart 1991) and “four C – concept” on creativity influence levels (Kaufman and Beghetto 2009), the main issue discussed here was human creativity resources recognized in Adila Pašalić-Kreso intellectual capabilities, personality, intellectual stiles, knowledge, motivation and surrounding. Tematic and conceptual analysis of titles and contents of published papers/books, titles of students’ works that she had been mentoring as well as titles categorization due to language and place of pubishing showed that surrounding-resource has been classified as the most frequent one with special treatment of school, family, society and culture. One-fifth of all written material/ products consist an eminent author’s creativity. Results confirmed that the most productive creative years hereby followed Erickson’s psychosocial theory of human development. The paper sends message about imaportance of teacher as role-model where tutoring and writing could be important resource and path in direct and indirect modeling and supporting of creativity.

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