Overview
- A unique, issues-based account of research in design learning
- Active learning processes explored and explained through multiple case studies
- A practical, useable guide to research processes
Part of the book series: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education (CTISE, volume 34)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Our Philosophical Position
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Emerging Issues And Understandings
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Back Matter
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About this book
Design and Technology evolved in the school curriculum from the mid 1960s. By the 1980s it had become mainstream for the British government to fund research exploring what learners could do when challenged with design & technology tasks. The authors worked together on that project, producing in 1991 the first seminal research report on learners’ capability in design and technology.
This book summarises the lessons learned from this and other projects. The book’s messages centre on the designing activity, on learning, teaching and assessment, and, more widely, on what can be learnt about the research process itself. The authors aim to answer questions such as: How does the active, concrete learning tradition enable cognitive and emotional growth? What influences bear upon the process; the teacher, the environment, the task, the learners themselves? Researching such questions, their concerns have integrated the conceptual, the practical and the pedagogic.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The new Kimbell and Stables book … deals with technology education only. … I would like to recommend … warmly to all researchers in technology education. … There are three Parts. In Part 1 the underlying philosophical position of the research group is explained. Part 2 consists of project descriptions. Part 3 discusses ‘emerging issues and understanding’. … can be seen as milestones in the (relatively short) history of technology education research. … excellent contributions to their respective book series." (Marc de Vries, International Journal of Technology and Design Education, Vol. 18, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching Design Learning
Book Subtitle: Issues and Findings from Two Decades of Research and Development
Authors: Richard Kimbell, Kay Stables
Series Title: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5115-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5114-2Published: 08 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9054-7Published: 27 September 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5115-9Published: 23 September 2007
Series ISSN: 1878-0482
Series E-ISSN: 1878-0784
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 326
Topics: Education, general, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Higher Education, Design, general, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation