BRIDGING CREATIVITY AND STRATEGY: THE SHIFT FROM DIVERGENT TO DESIGN THINKING

This paper takes a look at how divergent thinking is being evaluated with the growing time, as divergent thinking helps to broaden the mental horizon. This paper highlights how students in a classroom environment move from using divergent thinking to using design thinking. Design thinking provides a systematic approach to problem-solving, emphasizing empathy, prototyping, and testing, in contrast to divergent thinking, which generates numerous ideas. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether and how teaching students to think like designers might improve their ability to turn abstract concepts into workable solutions. The results emphasised the advantages of design thinking in improving students' creative problem-solving abilities, promoting innovation, and equipping them for real-world difficulties. This paper presents ideas for students, educators, and future policymakers to integrate design thinking into the curriculum, promoting a more inventive and solution-oriented approach to learning.