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Signature Pedagogies for Designing: A Speculative Framework for Supporting Learning and Teaching in Design and Technology Education

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page 99-120. (May 2020)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41548-8_6

Abstract

In this chapter, I focus on the challenge of learning and teaching designing and offer an approach to overcome this challenge by proposing a pedagogic framework that enables teachers to focus on the why, what and how of teaching and learning designing in a flexible and creative way. Exploring the importance of design as a human capability, I unpack this capability in terms of its complexity, ongoing discussions about the nature of design knowledge and the concept of designerly ways of knowing. I then turn to explore a concept less well developed in design and technology education, that of signature pedagogies. Drawing on this concept and ways in which it has been developed in higher education design, parallels are explored with mainstream school education. Collected ideas are drawn together to create a framework for signature pedagogies of learning and teaching designing in schools. This framework is structured on design pedagogic purposes of speculation, imaging and modelling, materiality, need-to-know, critiquing and collaboration linked to pedagogic actions that can be taken and pedagogic tools that facilitate such actions. Finally, I provide two vignettes that illustrate how the framework could be used in classrooms.

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