Design thinking is a method of problem-solving that relies on a complex set of skills, processes and mindsets that help people generate novel solutions to problems. Taking Design Thinking to School: How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms uses an action-oriented approach to reframing K-12 teaching and learning, examining interventions that open up dialogue about when and where learning, growth, and empowerment can be triggered. While design thinking projects make engineering, design, and technology fluency more tangible and personal for a broad range of young learners, their embrace of ambiguity and failure as growth opportunities often clash with institutional values and structures. Through a series of in-depth case studies that honor and explore such tensions, the authors demonstrate that design thinking provides students with the agency and compassion that is necessary for doing creative and collaborative work, both in and out of the classroom. A vital resource for education researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, Taking Design Thinking to School brings together some of the most innovative work in design pedagogy.
Edited by:
Shelley Goldman,
Zaza Kabayadondo (Stanford University,
USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 566g
ISBN: 9781138101005
ISBN 10: 1138101001
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 17 November 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword by Bernard Roth SECTION I. DESIGN THINKING AND ITS EMERGENCE IN K-12 EDUCATION Chapter 1. Taking Design Thinking to School: How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms Shelley Goldman and Zaza Kabayadondo Chapter 2. The Culture of Practice: Design-Based Teaching and Learning Meredith Davis and Deborah Littlejohn Chapter 3. A Praxis Model for Design Thinking: Catalyzing Life Readiness Christelle Estrada and Shelley Goldman SECTION II. YOUNG DESIGNERS—K-12 STUDENTS TAKE ON DESIGN THINKING Chapter 4. Design Partners in Schools: Encouraging Design Thinking Through Cooperative Inquiry Mona Leigh Guha, Brenna McNally and Jerry Alan Fails Chapter 5. Taking Design Thinking to East, West, and Southern Africa: Key Lessons from Global Minimum’s Student Innovation Programs Desmond Mitchell and Mathias Esmann Chapter 6. Capturing Middle School Students' Understandings of Design Thinking Shelley Goldman, Molly B. Zielezinski, Tanner Vea, Stephanie Bachas-Daunert, Zaza Kabayadondo Chapter 7. Adapting the User-Centered Design Framework for K-12 Education: The Riverside School Case Study Mohanram Gudipati and Kiran Bir Sethi SECTION III. DESIGN THINKING AS A CATALYST FOR REIMAGINING EDUCATION Chapter 8. Build It In from the Start: A New School’s Journey to Embrace Design Thinking Susie Wise Chapter 9. ResponsiveDesign: Scaling out to transform educational systems, structures and cultures Ralph Cordova, Ann Taylor, Phyllis Balcerzak, Michelle Whitacre and Jeffery Hudson Chapter 10. Teachers as Designers of Context-Adaptive Learning Experience Zanette Johnson Chapter 11. To Succeed, Failure Must Be An Option David Kwek Chapter 12. Empathy in STEM Education Kathy Liu Sun SECTION IV. INSPIRING TEACHING: DESIGN THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM Chapter 13. Professional Development That Bridges the Gap Between Workshop and Classroom Through Disciplined Improvisation Jennifer Knudsen and Nicole Schectman Chapter 14. The Materiality of Design in E-Textiles Verily Tan, Anna Kuene, and Kylie Peppler Chapter 15. Finding Your Fit: Empathy, Authenticity, and Ambiguity in the Design Thinking Classroom Molly B. Zielezinski Chapter 16. Analyzing Materials in Order to Find Design Opportunities for the Classroom Charlie Cox, Xorman Apedoe, Eli Silk, and Christian Schunn Chapter 17. Developing Powerful, Portable Design Thinking: The Innovators’ Compass Ela Ben-Ur
Shelley Goldman is Professor of Education, Learning Sciences, and Technology Design at Stanford University. Zaza Kabayadondo is Co-director of the Design Thinking Initiative at Smith College, a pilot program to reimagine liberal arts education.
