Integration of ‘design thinking’ in a reflection model to enhance the teaching of biology

Reflection on current practices is key to the transformation of teachers into reflexive practitioners. This study describes how design thinking was integrated in Schön's ‘reflection in and on’ model, to transform traditional teaching of Biology into constructivist learning. As a first step, the reflection model was used to identify limitations in the current practices of a teacher educator by analysing (i) a critical incidence which took place...