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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It seems very clear that something is seriously amiss in what might be called ‘cultural’ education. We have already reviewed the manifestos from NSEAD and the Crafts Council. Now we have a substantial report on the wider value of culture and the importance of cultural education. It comes from the Warwick Commission set up by […]
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 […]
It can’t be often that art, craft and design education are the subject of two important manifestos. But the Crafts Council and the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) both marked the end of 2014 by issuing policy statements. Both are essential reading for anyone interested in design research or design education. […]
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 […]
Design and Technology Education: an international Journal, 19(3), October 2014, pp.73-74 I was delighted to be asked to review Xenia Denos’ book, based as it is on the literature review of her Ph.D. thesis for which I was external examiner. In turn, I was honoured to be asked to perform this role, as I had followed […]
