The dimensions of creativity in technical education

Introduction: this paper engages with the change in the approach to technical education and to its research nature, quantity and quality ratio. The technical education is ordinary education and technical education at the same time. The technical education is a set of activities aimed at the skillful use of technology in deliberately organized process of interacting with an individual, causing permanent changes in their personality. Formation of a learner’s technological culture is made by providing knowledge about the products of technology, experiencing technical situations, raising respect for human technical creativity and products of creativity, developing an ability to use the products of technology. Technical education is aimed at the student’s cognitive realm, providing information and building a system of knowledge about the technical reality, developing cognitive skills needed to receive, understand, interpret and verify technical phenomena. Materials and Methods: the research was based on the analysis of students’ theses enrolled at Organization and Management Faculty of Lodz University of Technology. Results: objective quality indicators were defined for the purposes of analysis. The analysis results are not final, but they form the basis for an in-depth understanding of the academic reality. Generic requirements have been developed to polytechnic education. Discussion and Conclusions: polytechnic education is a specific link in the development of culture and civilization that provides value to the formation of personality. Different areas of the human civilization and the objective socio-cultural world are the basis for development. Polytechnic education forms the elite, providing the stable development of the society in accordance with the rules and principles.