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EcoDesign Education Strategies: A recent initiative for Industrial Design and Technology undergraduates at Loughborough University
Get PDFThe emerging need to introduce students to sustainable design strategies requires curriculum developers to address some difficult issues. The effective introduction of sustainable design into industrial practice has been the result of significant initiatives that have provided training and support. Student designers need no less, but resources are only beginning to be developed and staff expertise is not widespread. It is essential for those engaged with this agenda to share the expertise they have if further generations of designers are not to emerge from universities with no more knowledge of good practice in sustainable design than their predecessors. This paper reports some initial curriculum development findings concerning the introduction of sustainable de
Capability Lost and Found? The Maurice Brown Memorial Lecture
Get PDFThe title of my lecture parodies Milton in his search for paradise. Technology education in its many guises in the UK has the idea of 'capability' embedded within it. Like Milton's search, there has been a search for capability's identity. The nature of capability has varied over time and among different advocates. Although capability has been central to the debate about technology education for the last 10 years or so, we have vacillated in what we understand by the term. However, in the final version of the National Curriculum, we find capability expressed as a tripartite relationship of designing, making and knowledge. The Programmes of Study for each key stage start with the statement:Pupils should be taught to develop their design and technology capability through combining their Designing and Making skills .
Software Reviews
No full textPEOPLE SIZE - HUMAN DATA SOFTWARE - reviewed by John HansonCORTEX - THE PERSONAL EXPERT SYSTEM - reviewed by John Hanso
