Pedagogical conditions for the formation of readiness to innovate by means of design thinking in the context of primary school teachers professional preparation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the substantiation of pedagogical conditions for managing the preparation of future primary school teachers for innovative activity by means of the “design thinking” approach. The authors found contradictions between the need of the Ukrainian education system for teachers with a high level of readiness for innovation and insufficient level of managerial, pedagogical, and practical aspects of preparing future primary school teachers for innovation by means of the design-thinking approach. The article focuses on terms of “innovative pedagogical activity”, “professional preparations of future primary school teachers”, “teacher’s readiness to innovative pedagogical activity”, “managing preparations of applicants”, “design-thinking approach”. The technology of “design thinking” was chosen as a tool for the formation of future professionals' readiness for innovation as it allows the provision of real mechanism models for creating and implementing innovations during professional activities. It is determined that the management of future primary school teachers preparation for innovation by means of “design-thinking” technology becomes most effective when this process is based on a synergistic combination of pedagogical conditions: purposeful management of the formation of internal motivation of future primary school teachers to carry out innovative pedagogical activities; creation and application of a joint team scheme for the implementation of innovative pedagogical activities in the team of higher education students by means of “design thinking”. The prospect of research in this direction is further experimental testing of pedagogical conditions for managing the preparation of higher education students for innovative pedagogical activities by means of "design thinking"