DIALOGISM AS A PATHWAY TO CREATIVITY IN TEACHER EDUCATION FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

This paper aims to introduce and investigate creativity as a key element of achievingsustainable development. Conceptually, it adopts a post-normal perspective of creativity and focuses on Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism as a pathway to it. Empirically, it is aparticipative qualitative research introducing the notion of creativity to the students enrolled at the English department, Humanities and Administration College, Qassim Private Colleges to help those students – as prospective teachers – to be creative teachers designing teaching aids related to the contents of their courses. This study was conducted upon 160 female studentsduring the first term of the academic year 2015-2016.At the end of the term, those students were introduced to a competition entitled "The Most Creative Project". Intending to investigate how those students conceived of and worked for creativity, they underwent a survey after the Project Fair. They reported that their participation in that experience enabled them to exchange ideas.They concluded that all of them excelled in introducing their creative projects.