Title
Design Education: Creating Thinkers to Improve the World
Files
Description
Design Education: Creating Thinkers to Improve the World is a curricular resource that offers theoretical concepts and practical advice for teaching lessons in design to preK-12 grade students. The book is for art educators at the preK-12 level in schools, museums, and enrichment programs, and university professors in teacher preparation programs. Design education is about problem-solving, learning through objects of our daily lives, and the role design plays in social responsibility and the creative economy.
Designers utilize research methods, technology, sketching, and the construction of prototypes. The basis of these techniques, systems, and tools may be taught to preK-12 students. Students need lifelong skills that build their creativity and problem-solving capabilities to better understand the world and themselves and use visual communication to advance their abilities to express ideas.
Design is a study about life and can touch on all school subjects, making it a valuable interdisciplinary study. Students are able to directly apply thinking strategies and learning about facts, figures, and concepts at the same time they are crafting meaningful ideas about the importance, influence, and social implications of everyday items and the potential to improve the world.
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9781475820157, ISBN-10: 1475820151
Publication Date
12-2016
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
City
Lanham, MD
Disciplines
Art and Design | Art Education | Educational Methods
Department
Art
Recommended Citation
Vande Zande, Robin (2016). Design Education: Creating Thinkers to Improve the World. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.kent.edu/facultybooks/111