Teaching Design: A Guide to Curriculum and Pedagogy for College Design Faculty and Teachers Who Use Design in Their Classrooms
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0721L48YL |
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| Number of Pages | : | 117 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Meredith Davis is emerita professor at the College of Design at North Carolina State University, where she served as the department head of graphic design and director of the interdisciplinary PhD in design. She is the author of Graphic Design Theory and is a member on the editorial boards of Design Issues and She Ji Jou
The book addresses writing objectives and learning outcomes that succeed in the counting-and-measuring culture of institutions but also meet the demands of a twenty-first-century education. And while K-12 educators are trained for the classroom, their ability to transform teaching and learning through design is limited by a shortfall in professional literature.Davis's extensive experience in education offers a detailed path for the development of curricula. An Expertly Written Guidebook to Teaching Design at All LevelsTeaching Design provides a practical foundation for teaching about and through design. Sections on assessment make the case for performance-based activities that provide credible evidence of student learning. The exploding interest in design and design thinking calls for qualified faculty members who are well prepared for a variety of institutional settings and content areas. Davis also discusses the nature of contemporary problems and teaching strategies that are well matched to growing complexity, rapid technological
About the AuthorMeredith Davis is emerita professor at the College of Design at North Carolina State University, where she served as the department head of graphic design and director of the interdisciplinary PhD in design. She holds BS and MEd degrees in education from Penn State University and an MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.. She has also served on the NASAD Accreditation Commission, drafted its design standards, and reviewed more than eighty college-level curricula in the United States and ten countries abroad. Davis has taught for forty-seven years, and she is the Alexander Quarles Holladay medalist for Excellence in Teaching and AIGA national medalist. She is the author of Graphic Design Theory and is a member on the editorial boards of Design Issues and She Ji Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation