Academic Exchange Quarterly
Summer 2009,
Volume 13, Issue 2
Expanded issue up to 400+ pages.
Articles on
various topics plus the following special sections.
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Focus:
The teaching and learning in the traditional disciplines of design have inspired
many constructivist approaches such as situated cognition, reflective practice,
experimental learning and so on. Authors like John Dewey and Donald Schön based
some of their theories in the way designers learn how to become an expert in their
discipline.
Paradoxically, the recent education in disciplines like graphic design, industrial
design and architecture is actually forgetting the value and richness of the expert
and novice model and of reflective practice. The practice of design occurs today in
front of a personal computer and the design students seem to forget the real purpose
of design: to solve problems of communication.
Research in the design field is scant because most designers are practitioners who
work as professionals, but those who teach in universities are concerned with the
future development of the discipline. For that reason, it is important to expand the
knowledge base that contributes to improve the practical areas of teaching and
learning.
Who May Submit:
The purpose of this feature is to be a forum for higher education faculty, graduate
students and staff developers from the design disciplines who are seeking and
developing ways to innovate and improve education in this field.
This feature is also for those who use the expert and novice model, principles,
techniques and strategies inspired in design to improve the teaching and learning
of the practical aspects and skills of their students in other disciplines.
Authors are encouraged to submit: descriptions of learning activities grounded in
related pedagogical theories, examples of student or teacher work and its relation
to related theories, teaching techniques or strategies, anything that expands the
knowledge base of how the design should be taught and learned or how the pedagogy
of the kraftman disciplines is applied to the education of the practice in other
areas.
Please identify your submission with keyword:
DESIGN
Submission deadline:
any time until the end of February 2009;
see details for other deadline options like
early, regular, and short.
Submission Procedure:
http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm
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