Study on How to Cultivate Students' Design Thinking Through Woodworking Classes in k-12 Education

Dehua Yu1,a, Jiping Yue2,b Dehua Yu1,a and Jiping Yue2,b
 
1Beijing Institute of Technology，No. 5 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, China
2Kede College of Capital Normal University, No.10 Yuxiang Road, Yufa Town, Daxing District, Beijing, China
 
Abstract: 
Design thinking is a systematic and learnable innovative thinking. In China, design thinking has been used in primary and secondary education and acquire some active experience. The combination of design thinking and woodworking classes can give an active attempt to cultivate children’s design thinking and creation. Two programs of woodworking are chosen to study, one is “A Home for Light”, the other is “A Place to Show Time”, from which we study the creation process.
 
Keywords: 

design thinking, woodworking classes, k-12 education

pages: 

49-52

DOI: 

https://doi.org/10.35745/ecei2019v2.013

Year: 

2019

Published in: 

2nd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2019

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