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Teacher as Designer

Design Thinking for Educational Change

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  • Serves as a guide to practitioners that links theory and practice with regards to design-based processes in education

  • Provides guiding questions and vignettes to help readers better understand and apply design-based processes and principles

  • Shows how distinct design processes and principles offer unique educational opportunities and possibilities

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Differing Perspectives on Educational Design

  2. Key Actors Within Educational Design

  3. New Possibilities for Design in Education

  4. Conclusion

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About this book

 This book offers insights into how design-based processes, principles, and mindsets can be productively employed in diverse P-16 educational spaces by a myriad of educational actors including teachers, instructional leaders, and students. It addresses concerns about the theoretical and practical implications of the still emergent emphasis of design in education.

 The book begins by examining a number of prominent design processes being used by educators including human-centred design, designing for authentic inquiries, and Universal Design for Learning. It then delves into how teachers, system leaders, and students can engage in educational design within the complex spaces of K-12 contexts. Finally, the book takes up design in education within a maker and making context. Each chapter includes a vignette, a series of guiding questions, along with specific design principles that can help address common challenges and issues educators encounter in their practice.

 This book provides both theoretical and practical elements involved in educational design and is beneficial to scholars, graduate students, educators, and pre-service teachers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    David Scott, Jennifer Lock

About the editors

David Scott, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Learning in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Dr. Scott’s research has focussed on how educators interpret and pedagogically respond to new curricular mandates including recent directives in Canada to engage students in inquiry-based learning. More recently, his work has been focussed on reframing and repositioning the ways design has traditionally been understood and enacted in the field of education. He is currently involved in research on how insights from design fields and critical perspectives in sociocultural theory can help teachers move beyond technical rational approaches to design towards more designerly stances in service of transforming cultural configurations within schools.


Jennifer Lock Ph.D., is a Professor and Vice Dean in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her area of specialization is in the Learning Sciences. Dr. Lock’s research interests are in the following areas: e-learning with a specific focus in online learning, online learning communities, and developing capacity of online educators; technology integration in education and teacher education; change and innovation in education; educational development and the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education; and learning through making and makerspaces.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teacher as Designer

  • Book Subtitle: Design Thinking for Educational Change

  • Editors: David Scott, Jennifer Lock

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9789-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9788-6Published: 21 February 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9791-6Published: 22 February 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9789-3Published: 20 February 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 156

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Education, general

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