Abstract
This paper aimed to clarify the concepts of both mind and how it works for education, knowing the role of education in creativity development in light of the concept of mental control theory. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive approach was used to answer the following questions:
- How mind works in education and its role in developing creativity in light of the theory of mental control?
- What are the basic principles of mental control theory?
- How can the mind be used in education to develop creativity?
That was through a review of what has been written in the educational literature about the realization of the mind and its role in creativity development in light of the theories of mental control and cognitive control. The study reaches a set of results, the most important of which are: that the relationship of the realization of the mind and education is a relationship of integration that does not contradict, and that the mind's dealing with education is controlled by methodological rules, and that the vision of the realization of the mind to the development of creativity opened new horizons away from imitation and dependence in all its forms, and called him to think There are intellectual and educational applications through which the mind can be used to develop creativity in the learner.