Eddie Norman … investigating? … piloting? … exploring? … modelling? There are many possible responses, but … research … might be one that springs to mind, and it begs many questions. Research has been a term used to describe all kinds of investigations within D&T in schools. What kind of research? Who should the […]
Eddie Norman LDP’s new title Redesigning D&T was launched on Tuesday 6 July and these are the 3 key areas I noted concerning its background: the decline of D&T; who the designers of a curriculum should be; and knowledge in D&T. THE DECLINE OF D&T The book is one result of the many interesting discussions that […]
ISBN References ISBN [Paperback, B&W] 978-1-909671-26-3 … £9.99 ISBN [ebook, mobi] 978-1-909671-27-0 … £2.99 The paperback is available from The Great British Book Shop A print replica ebook version for Kindles is available from Amazon. About This Book Technology changes and design contexts move on. Design areas that are central to children’s experiences might need to be […]
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 […]
Review by Liz Macfarlane Education Consultant, Vice-President NSEAD An excellent review of LDP’s recent publication can be found on the NSEAD website and can be found here: http://nsead.org/news/news.aspx?id=806 It is also shown below. ‘The collection of papers featured in this book were drawn together as a response to the Department for Education’s Expert Panel, which […]
Review by Jeffrey Buckley KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Stockholm Jeffrey Buckley’s review of Design Epistemology and Curriculum Planning was published in the March 2018 Issue of Design and Technology Education: an international journal and can be found at: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/DATE/article/view/2357 We have just quoted the start and end of the review below, but we […]
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 […]
When I became Editor of Design and Technology Education: an international Journal (DATE:IJ) in 2005 there was a clear direction ahead. It had been set many years previously by the late Professor John Eggleston at the first IDATER conference in 1988. It was actually DATER then (Design and Technology Education Research and Curriculum Development Conference), […]
In December Ken Baynes and Eddie Norman were invited to speak (via Skype) at the Principals Meet that is held annually at DSK International Campus, Pune in India to discuss the importance of creative careers in the 21st Century. The topic for discussion was ‘The Perfect Misfits’, so clearly irresistible to us. Mr. Ninad Panse […]
Thinking through Drawing 2012 was an interdisciplinary symposium on drawing, cognition and education held at the Wimbledon College of Art from 12-14 September 2012. It focused on ‘Drawing in STEAM’ as this quotation from the organisers indicates. ‘How is drawing used within and between STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths)? What is the relationship […]
