ISBN References ISBN [Paperback, B&W] 978-1-909671-24-9 … £12.99 RRP ISBN [Mobi, B&W] 978-1-909671-25-6 … £4.99 RRP The paperback is available from The Great British Bookshop A print replica ebook version for Kindles is available from Amazon. About This Book Drawing to Learn Anything is a collection of ideas and explorations into how simple, non-skilled drawing can help you […]
LDP had intended to focus its publication efforts on ebooks, although as things turned out the paperbacks and hardbacks rather established their own momentum. However with the publication of our latest title, we are making efforts to restore the place of ebooks in our portfolio. As a first step, we have created print replica ebooks […]
ISBN References ISBN [Paperback, B&W] 978-1-909671-19-5 … £9.99 RRP ISBN [Mobi, B&W] 978-1-909671-20-1 … £3.99 RRP The paperback is available from The Great British Bookshop. A print replica ebook version for Kindles is available from Amazon. About This Book This book is aimed at all the scientists, mathematicians, engineers, pioneers and thinkers out there who understand the value of […]
Most writers on design education are (rightly) scornful of our highly standardised school curriculum. We see it as focused on past knowledge, emphasising the academic over the creative and practical. Though it claims to be trying to fit children for adult life, it is not itself orientated towards the future or the skills and understandings […]
Review by Dawne Bell Edge Hill University Published online in Design and Technology Education: an international journal, 22(1) in May, 2017, the full review can be found at: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/DATE/article/view/2200> The full review includes commentaries on each chapter, and only the introduction and summary are shown below … Authored by Eileen Adams Agents of Change, as […]
Review by Ged Gast Past president, NSEAD The National Society for Education in Art and Design magazine, Spring 017, Issue 18, pp 32-33 Eileen Adams has worked at the leading edge of art, design and environmental education for the past 40 years, as a teacher, examiner, researcher, freelance consultant and project manager. This book marks […]
Change in education is notoriously difficult to achieve. The administrative structures, the numbers of teachers and managers, the range of agencies and political and economic pressures involved, not to mention the need to please Ofsted and achieve a high rank in different aspects of school league tables, means it’s usually easiest and wisest to leave […]
With this, her most recent publication, Eileen Adams has brought together a lifetime of experiences, experimentation, innovation and professional practice in the field of art, design and environmental education. The range of her work and depth of her commitment is clearly evident throughout, and as a statement of intention and aspiration this book is both […]
The opening of Eileen Adams book reminds us that art and design educationalists of the post-war, pre-digital age were grappling with how to adapt an academy based art education to incorporate twentieth century developments in art and design. Both Modernist and Contemporary art movements challenged the basis of traditional methods. Brave teachers, art educationalists and […]
Much progress has been made since the astonishing Draft Proposals for Design and Technology in the English National Curriculum were published in 2013 and LDP responded by rapidly publishing Design Education: A Vision for the Future with the help of many of our friends. In the last few weeks, we have been reading two documents […]
