"Design thinking as an Educational tool to Change the Mindset of Teachers"

Abstract

Design thinking (DT) is a mindset and a holistic concept to design cognition and design learning that enables students to work successfully in multi-disciplinary teams and enact positive, design-led changes in the world. Design Thinking proved already to be a tool capable of delivering “new skills”, many of the new skills - social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, cross cultural competences, transdisciplinarity, creativity, design mind-set & virtual collaboration – employers and organizations seek. The need to prepare the present and future workers for an increasingly dynamic society has long been a concern at different political, educational, and organisational levels. This scenario offers an important challenge to the education and training sector.