As the era of the fourth industrial revolution age with the intelligent information technology has arrived, the education field is also required to change and improve towards social needs. It is a historical duty for education in the technology-friend...
As the era of the fourth industrial revolution age with the intelligent information technology has arrived, the education field is also required to change and improve towards social needs. It is a historical duty for education in the technology-friendly society to develop better and sustainable learning environments.
Some of the key capabilities of learners in the future that education experts commonly emphasize are creativity and emotional performance.
In the fast changing society where artificial intelligence and robots replace a lot of areas that humans have been doing, the unique attributes of human beings are creativity, convergence, and emotion.
Therefore, in the recent education field, various attempts have been made to cultivate creative convergent talents, and, accordingly, the interest in emotional education is also increasing.
In this study, design thinking was noted as teaching method for the balanced development of learners' cognitive and emotional abilities.
The design thinking process is a creative and innovative teaching method that recognizes the educational value and has the potential to be used variously in the field of education. Until now, however, the design thinking process has been mainly used only in the entrepreneurship courses in the university or in corporate education.
Also, design thinking was applied in some of the gifted education in K-12. Therefore, it has been limited research results in the subject.
In this study, the following research questions were set up to investigate the effectiveness of design thinking-based education in the affective domain for applying to a more general settings, : The first was to identify that if there would be a significant difference (or change) in the emotional intelligence of elementary school students from design thinking-based education. The second was to identify whether there would be a significant difference (or change) in elementary school students' creative personality from design thinking-based education.
In this study, instructional design materials and measurement tools were developed and utilized. The subjects of the study were 29 students from one class at D elementary school in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, and the instructor conducted 10 time of lessons for applying the design-thinking process from April to May 2019. To address the research problems, the pre-post test results and interview data were collected, and the statistical analysis was performed on a total of 22 valid samples. Using the data, paired t-tests were executed to understand the differences in the pre-post scores in emotional intelligence and creative personality constructs with SPSS 22.0
software packages. In addition, during the design thinking-based education, the research participants were interviewed to track meaningful changes in the development of affective domain.
A summary of the main results of this study is as follows.
First, the elementary school students' emotional intelligence scores were improved after the design thinking-based education. However, there was no significant difference between the pre-post scores in some sub-components of emotional intelligence (emotional expression and empathy). Second, the elementary school students' creative personality scores were significantly improved after the design thinking-based education. However, there was no significant difference in pre-post scores in some sub-components of the creative personality(motivation, curiosity, and adventure).