Models of Change: The future of design education
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This paper discusses design and design education in the context of four major social and environmental concerns identified by Bruce Archer in 1973: overpopulation; pollution; depletion of natural resources; control. It argues for the social and economic importance of design
education in primary and secondary schools. It identifies ‘designerly thinking’ as an aspect of cognitive modelling directed towards imagining viable alternative futures. The paper then reviews the otential of design educational activity, focusing on seven themes:
• The aims of design education.
• The significance of practical education.
• Encouraging the imagination.
• The creative value of aesthetic awareness.
• The value of learning through making.
• The creative relationships between designing and
making.
• The educational purpose of doing design projects.
Research agenda are identified in key areas: the nature of imaginative activity and its significance in education; graphicacy and cognitive modelling in design.
education in primary and secondary schools. It identifies ‘designerly thinking’ as an aspect of cognitive modelling directed towards imagining viable alternative futures. The paper then reviews the otential of design educational activity, focusing on seven themes:
• The aims of design education.
• The significance of practical education.
• Encouraging the imagination.
• The creative value of aesthetic awareness.
• The value of learning through making.
• The creative relationships between designing and
making.
• The educational purpose of doing design projects.
Research agenda are identified in key areas: the nature of imaginative activity and its significance in education; graphicacy and cognitive modelling in design.
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BAYNES, Ken.
Models of Change: The future of design education.
Design and Technology Education: an International Journal, [S.l.], v. 15, n. 3, oct. 2010.
ISSN 1360-1431.
Available at: <https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/DATE/article/view/1532>. Date accessed: 26 mar. 2023.
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