Full 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.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why Teach Design?
Chapter One: Design Education is a Study about Life
Chapter Two: What We Can Learn from Designers That We Can use in Our Classrooms
Chapter Three: How to Implement Design Education into Your Art Program
Chapter Four: Framework of the Practices, Principles and Strategies for Teaching Design
Chapter Five: Curricular Aspects; Units and Design Lessons
Chapter Six: Concepts to Teach: Individual Physical, Emotional, and Intellectual Health Societal Health- Social Responsibility and Economics
Chapter Seven: Design Lesson Methods and Topics for Elementary Students
Chapter Eight: Design Lesson Methods and Topics for Middle School Students
Chapter Nine: Design Lesson Methods and Topics for High School Students
References
Appendix
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