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Designing Styles : a new way of looking at design at design
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posted on 2007-05-23, 11:11 authored by Tony Lawler, Martin HowlettThis is the record of a preliminary study into the use of
Designing Styles (Lawler, 1999) within design and
technology teaching. The theoretical notions of Designing
Styles have been developed into a test instrument in a
school context and then used to regroup students into similar
‘style groups’. These restructured groups were taught,
covering similar materials in ways ‘tailored’ to their
Designing Styles. What has emerged from this procedure
has been an increased awareness by pupils of ‘how’ they
learn and, interestingly, an increase in teachers’ motivation
towards their teaching.
This paper is positioned between the validation of research
findings, action research and curriculum development. It
represents an attempt to further validate concepts of
Designing Styles through their application within the
secondary (11 to 18 years of age) design and technology
curriculum. Because it is both developmental and
experimental, it is difficult to claim definitive correlations
between Designing Styles and pupil and teacher
performance. The hypothesis behind this work was ‘learning
and teaching in design and technology could be enhanced
by the application of the concepts of Designing Styles.’
These are, therefore, the preliminary findings of a pilot
study into using the concept of Designing Styles in
secondary level design and technology teaching.
History
School
- Design
Research Unit
- D&T Association Conference Series
Publisher
© DATAPublication date
2003Notes
This is a conference paperLanguage
- en