Social Innovation and Research (SIR) Curriculum
Discover how Cedar Girls' Secondary School uses Design Thinking to nurture empathy and spark creative social innovations across four years.
Social Innovation and Research (SIR) Curriculum
Cedar Girls’ Secondary School has a rigorous and well grounded academic programme that prepares our students for the emerging and changing needs of the world. The Social Innovation and Research curriculum complements this with a focus on empathy-driven social innovations. Students are challenged to come up with these innovations using the Design Thinking framework and thinking tools taught to them over their four years.
Design Thinking is a simple framework that can help us to come up with creative solutions for others. It brings us through 5 stages — Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Testing / Feedback. During Cedarians’ time in Cedar, they will be involved in social innovation projects that make use of Design Thinking.