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Form, Fit And Flair: Considering The Design Doctorate, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison
Form, Fit And Flair: Considering The Design Doctorate, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison
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Across the domains of design education the Design PhD is an area of much contemporary discussion and debate internationally. As the field of the discipline of design matures, so does its relationship with this qualification: its form, methods and relevance within and beyond the academy. In this paper, the authors critically reflect on their respective observations of differing models of undertaking design PhDs and subsequent models of submission and examination. Founded in their observations of the diversity of design PhDs pedagogically and structurally, the authors have begun a global mapping of current PhDs in design and are exploring how the …
Teaching In China: Reflections On Higher Education, Student Learning, And Teacher Training, Wing-Kai To, John Marvelle, Ryan Labrozzi, Chien Wen Yu
Teaching In China: Reflections On Higher Education, Student Learning, And Teacher Training, Wing-Kai To, John Marvelle, Ryan Labrozzi, Chien Wen Yu
2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference
In spring and summer 2013, four faculty members from Bridgewater State University taught courses on history, business, education, American studies, and second language acquisition in several universities in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and a workshop for teachers in an international school in Xiamen. These opportunities offer our faculty new perspectives on the current state of higher education, student learning, and teacher training in China and Hong Kong. Wing-kai To taught history, culture, immigration, and ethnicity to graduate students and undergraduate students in the spring semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong and in a …
The Emergence Of Singlehood In The 20th And Early 21st Century: Hong Kong, Japan, And Taiwan, Joanna Kang
The Emergence Of Singlehood In The 20th And Early 21st Century: Hong Kong, Japan, And Taiwan, Joanna Kang
2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference
In East Asia, Confucian philosophy is the dominant value system, especially its prominent doctrine of filial piety. Filial piety is a requirement of life, and being filial is an essential approach to acquire public recognition as an individual with integrity. The most unfilial and unforgivable behavior is being unmarried or sonless.[1] However, there are more and more Asian women who are immersed in this social milieu yet are choosing to embrace their singlehood. The liberation of Asian women is one of the momentous outcomes of Western modernization. This is also a trans-cultural trend that spans nations, societies, and ideologies. What …
Teaching Constraints, Learning Creativity: Leveraging The Guided Distractions, Margherita Pillan, Marco Maiocchi, Marko Radeta
Teaching Constraints, Learning Creativity: Leveraging The Guided Distractions, Margherita Pillan, Marco Maiocchi, Marko Radeta
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Different disciplines require different approaches to education. The teaching of formalized sciences (such are physics, chemistry, etc.) requires the study of consolidated and already verified results and is conveniently carried out through lecturing (e.g. lectures or books) while formalisms and techniques are learned together with disciplinary contents. Soft disciplines (such are fine arts, interior design, media production, journalism, etc.) require “learning by doing”: the study of facts and techniques that is weakly related to the ability to produce masterpieces or new ideas. Design is in an intermediate position: techniques can be learned (e.g. modelling, representation, materials, colours, etc.), but the …
Designing Funwritr: Unpacking An Affinity-Based, Professionalizing, Graduate-Level Educational Technology Design Experience, Justin Olmanson, Chung-Kai Huang, Rob Scordino, Jaejin Lee
Designing Funwritr: Unpacking An Affinity-Based, Professionalizing, Graduate-Level Educational Technology Design Experience, Justin Olmanson, Chung-Kai Huang, Rob Scordino, Jaejin Lee
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In this paper and presentation we describe, unpack, and reflect upon the dynamic, evolving processes of collaborative, democratized educational technology design that led to the creation of an open-ended literacy development and language acquisition environment named FunWritr. When the project began, each member of our group was either in a graduate program for educational technology design or interested in matriculating into such a program. Over the course of five years we have worked together, growing as designers, developers, and researchers of educational technologies. Reflecting on our authentic, self-guided, evolving curriculum ofexperiences, we recognize processes and unpack factors that contributed to …
Feel The Fear: Learning Graphic Design In Affective Places And Online Spaces, Anitra Nottingham
Feel The Fear: Learning Graphic Design In Affective Places And Online Spaces, Anitra Nottingham
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This paper explores the idea of pedagogic affect in both onsite and online graphic design learning spaces, and speculates on the role that this affect plays in the formation of the design student. I argue that embodied design knowledge is built by interactions with design professionals, activities that mimic the daily work of designers, and practices of display such as student work galleries within design schools. Therefore bodies in motion, and the places they move within, take on more importance in the making-up of a graphic design student than we may expect. This idea has implications for online design learning. …
A Preliminary Study On Time Management In Undergraduate Industrial Design Students, Li-Hwa Lin, Wenzhi Chen
A Preliminary Study On Time Management In Undergraduate Industrial Design Students, Li-Hwa Lin, Wenzhi Chen
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Time management is one of the most important factors affecting the learning process and outcome. The purpose of this study aims to explore the time management behaviors and attitudes of undergraduate industrial design students. The study applied a time management questionnaire to 646 students, ranging from sophomores to seniors, from seven universities in Taiwan. The findings are summarized as follows: 1) Most students recognize the importance and effectiveness of time management. 2) Most students are dissatisfied with the time management and methods used. 3) Female students have better planning and control of time than male students. 4) Degree of time …
Exploring Colour And Light As Dynamic Elements Of Space Through The Activities Of An International Workshop, Nada El-Khoury, Tiiu Poldma
Exploring Colour And Light As Dynamic Elements Of Space Through The Activities Of An International Workshop, Nada El-Khoury, Tiiu Poldma
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The ephemeral qualities of lighting are explored best as part of lived experiences. For students at the baccalaureate level, this is difficult and requires developing ideas that become realized through modelling by studying what happens when light, colour and material intersect with form. This process uses design thinking and hands-on experiences to show students how a dynamic interplay of design elements within a project occurs through learning and discussion. While creative processes require some form of abstract thinking and when ephemeral qualities aspects of light and colour contribute to the purpose for a particular use, the material aspects of a …
Technology And Design As Part Of A Public School From 1st To 10th Grade, Liv Klakegg Dahlin, Liv Oddrun Voll, Anne-Gunn Svorkmo
Technology And Design As Part Of A Public School From 1st To 10th Grade, Liv Klakegg Dahlin, Liv Oddrun Voll, Anne-Gunn Svorkmo
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Technology and Design was introduced as a multidisciplinary subject in Norwegian school in the context of the new curriculum in 2006. The topic should be a collaborative effort between the subjects of Science, Arts and Crafts, and Mathematics. In working with Technology and Design students develop a composite competence on product, process and context that we call Technology and Design expertise. There has been, and still remains, challenges associated with practicing the subject Technology and Design. The complex and many-facetted areas of expertise cause teachers within the traditional school subjects to experience the subject as strange, and it's challenging to …
Hcid: Who Is An Interaction Designer?, Alma Leora Culén, Joshi Govind Suhas, Atif Abdelhakeem
Hcid: Who Is An Interaction Designer?, Alma Leora Culén, Joshi Govind Suhas, Atif Abdelhakeem
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The development of technology with all its ubiquity and pervasiveness provides new opportunities and new challenges for the interaction design practitioners, both those coming from the design tradition and computer science tradition. An increased level of problem solving and creative thinking is needed when designing for interactions with new technology. In order to develop the skills and methods for dealing with increased complexity and connectedness of technology, human computer interaction design (HCID) education needs to embrace to a larger extent design practices and design thinking. This paper aims to answer two main questions: 1) why is it necessary to teach …
Multidisciplinary Design Education, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Cristina Portugal
Multidisciplinary Design Education, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Cristina Portugal
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Since 1994, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Design/Education (LIDE) has been cataloguing works that report experiences, graduation projects and postgraduate researches focusing on the teaching of Design and Design in Education. This paper gathers a collection of the main projects developed in LIDE since its creation and that integrate the research directory of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development –CNPq, with the aim to make available to academia and society a vision about researches dealing with Education in Design and Design on Education. Those are broad research fields; still few explored and, incidentally, that have been objects of research …