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An Exploratory Study on Determinants of Teachers’ Design Thinking Based on Diffusion of Innovation

  • Global Creative Leader: Education & Learning
  • Abbr : GCL
  • 2020, 10(1), pp.153-173
  • DOI : 10.34226/gcl.2020.10.1.153
  • Publisher : Research Institute for Gifted & Talented Education, Soongsil University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : February 20, 2020
  • Accepted : March 2, 2020
  • Published : March 30, 2020

KIM JINHEE 1 Sang-Soog Lee 2

1서울대학교
2한양대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that determine the spread of teachers’ design thinking (DT) based on Rogers's (1995) Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) and to analyze the relationship between these determinants and features of DT. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on 316 teachers in Seoul and Gyeonggi area, and the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling method (PLS-SEM) was used to verify the determinants of teachers’ DT. The main results of this study are as follows: First, 'compatibility’, ‘relative advantage’, ‘complexity’, and ‘trialability’ of DOI were found to have an effect on ‘collaboration’. Second, all the variables but ‘compatibility’ had an effect on ‘empathy’ of DT, and ‘complexity’ was the most influential determinant. Third, ‘relative advantage’ was found to have a superior effect on the ‘optimism’ of DT than other antecedents. This study‘s findings indicate that variables of DOI are suitable as antecedents to the spread of teachers’ DT. Also, the study provides empirical evidence that the DOI can provide a theoretical foundation for the research related to the spread of teachers’ DT.

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