Can Design Thinking reduce STEM Gender Gaps in Japan?

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“Can design thinking experience increase the female students’ interests and motivation and provide the nudge they need to consider STEM professionals, innovators, and entrepreneurs?” SKY Labo, a non-profit education social venture explores this hypothesis by providing 3-day workshops to Japanese students since 2016. The results from the pre- and post-intervention surveys informed that the short intervention has a strong positive influence on the female students’ mindsets, self-images, and perceptions towards STEM, innovation, and entrepreneurship, while gender norms and negative attitudes towards failure remains to be persistent.

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Date created June 2020

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Author Okajima, Miwa

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Subject STEM
Subject STEAM
Subject Gender gap
Subject Design-Thinking
Subject Japan
Genre Student project report

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Policy, Organization Leadership Studies (POLS) Program Field Projects, Graduate School of Education

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