Design Thinking for Education: Conceptions and Applications in Teaching and Learning

✍ Scribed by Joyce Hwee Ling Koh, Ching Sing Chai, Benjamin Wong, Huang-Yao Hong (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Singapur
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 141
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores, through eight chapters, how design thinking vocabulary can be interpreted and employed in educational contexts. The theoretical foundations of design thinking and design in education are first examined by means of a literature review. This is then followed by chapters that characterize design thinking among children, pre-service teachers and in-service teachers using research data collected from the authors’ design-driven coursework and projects. The book also examines issues associated with methods for fostering and assessing design thinking. In the final chapter, it discusses future directions for the incorporation of design thinking into educational settings. Intended for teachers, teacher educators and university instructors, this book aims to provide them with the theoretical foundations needed to grasp design thinking, and to provide examples of how design thinking can be interpreted and evaluated. The materials covered will help these groups of professionals to consider how design thinking can be integrated into their own teaching and learning contexts. The book will also promote a discourse between educational researchers on the theoretical development of design thinking in educational settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Design Thinking and Education....Pages 1-15
Critical Perspectives on Design and Design Thinking....Pages 17-31
Design Thinking and 21st Century Skills....Pages 33-46
Design Thinking and Children....Pages 47-66
Design Thinking and Preservice Teachers....Pages 67-86
Design Thinking and In-Service Teachers....Pages 87-107
Developing and Evaluating Design Thinking....Pages 109-120
Conclusion....Pages 121-128
Back Matter....Pages 129-131

✦ Subjects

Teaching and Teacher Education; Learning & Instruction