Alice Hellard, Goldsmiths University of London At Goldsmiths the major curriculum studies assignment during the D&T PGCE programme is focused on active and object-based learning. We live in a period in which arguments for knowledge-based learning and conventional ‘academic’ teaching and learning are ever more influential in policy and curriculum agendas (Gibb, 2021), which can […]
Category: Design Pedagogy
Authentic design tasks: How to teach the important and challenging dialogue with a client?
Gerald van Dijk, University of Applied Sciences, & Remke Klapwijk, TU Delft, The Netherlands Are you introducing your preservice teachers to ‘Design and Technology pedagogies’ in which pupils work with real clients? During these authentic design processes, communication between the students and their client is crucial. For both parties it is not always easy to […]