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Redesigning D&T: Practitioner Theory

by on February 23, 2022 in Curriculum Review, Design Education Discussion

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 […]

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A Fork in the Road (by Eddie Norman)

by on March 31, 2015 in Design Education Discussion

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), […]

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