Switch to draftPreviewUpdateAdd title The commonly held view of knowledge creation is that research leads to new knowledge that influences practice. Practitioner theory suggests an alternative model, namely that it is practice that can lead to new knowledge, which can subsequently be researched and refined. One model is essentially the reverse of the other. In […]
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 […]
Eddie Norman There are many issues that need to be discussed and many debates that need to be had concerning design in general education, and Design and Technology in particular. Dr Alison Hardy’s initiative in creating the Talking D&T podcasts provides one excellent platform for these to happen. One of the most important is ‘knowledge’ and […]
The background for, and some of the thinking behind LDP’s recent book Design Epistemology and Curriculum Planning has been published as a YouTube podcast and can be found here. The slides and transcript of this podcast are also available and can be downloaded here. Eddie Norman is currently working on a book developing the ideas […]
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 […]
ISBN References ISBN [Paperback, B&W] 978-1-909671-15-7 … £7.99 RRP ISBN [ebook, mobi] 978-1-909671-17-1 … £2.99 RRP The paperback version is available from The Great British Bookshop, online book sellers (eg BOOKS etc) and all good book shops. A print replica ebook version for Kindles is available from Amazon. About This Book Design epistemology is a challenging and elusive concept. When it is also […]
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 […]
If Brexit means Brexit, does education mean education? Or, to put the equation differently, what does Brexit mean for education? And, even more important, what can education do for Brexit? I’d say ‘a lot’ but perhaps not in the way understood by politicians. There seems to be quite remarkable agreement on the required national response […]
