TY - JOUR A1 - Krüger, Marc A2 - Panke, Stefanie T1 - Design Thinking for German Vocational Schools? Discovering of an Innovative Approach by Testing in Teacher Education T2 - Open Education Studies N2 - Design Thinking is an innovative approach that solves concrete problems and develops new products. Its constant spreading in industry, business, and non-profit organizations raises the question to which extent this approach may be of importance for German vocational schools. There is an increasing debate among scientists about design thinking in educational contexts, in which different authors regard it as useful for curriculum and school development as well as for coping with everyday school life. To assess the importance of design thinking for German vocational schools, pre-service teachers have tackled vocational school issues with design thinking. The paper concludes that design thinking is indeed of interest to vocational schools and that further work is recommended KW - Action Research; Design Thinking; Innovation; School Development; Teacher Education; Vocational Education and Training Y1 - 2019 UR - https://www.hb.fh-muenster.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11854 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/edu/1/1/article-p209.xml SP - 209 EP - 2019 ER -