The research for this thesis includes the field of education with the focus on teaching in primary
schools and discovering its problematics. The noticed demand for encouraging and learning about
critical thinking and creativity as goals was placed in the public system of primary school education in
Slovenia. Problematics was defined on hand of read literature, good practical examples, international
researches, carried out interviews and observations at different primary schools. Possibilities on
implementing design thinking in the teaching process have been tested. Conclusions from
observations, interviews and the first testing were the basis for the projected part of the thesis. The
solution for the detected problematics is a manual for teachers called Your Mission (Tvoja misija). The manual guides the teacher through the process of design thinking and how he or she can incorporate it into the teaching subjects and goals. With its help, the teacher can stimulate the students to be creative, critical, self-initiative, inventive and to encourage learning through problems and combining knowledge. As a support to the manual, an idea was developed for a complete solution to the problem – a forum, blog, online shop with webinars, interactive class-organizers and mobile applications. On hand of the results from the tests, all this would be a potential idea on how to make even more improvements in the future.
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