Design Education and Designed Learning Environments
The Research Area Design Education and Designed Learning Environments focuses on the nature of design and the nature of education and the ways in which these impact on each other. There is particular interest in the strategies that design research can offer for the development and refinement of educational theory and for the development of new professional practices in design.
Research in this area includes:
- The implications of higher education and research policies for design education,
- How contemporary pedagogical theory and design education practice can inform curriculum development in design education and curriculum development in general,
- Pedagogically-informed design of learning environments, real and virtual, including artefacts and spatial environments.
This research area is selective in what it examines in that it undertakes research that specifically addresses the implications of education policies and pedagogies for design and the role of design in generating education curriculum and pedagogically- informed learning environments. This area offers opportunities to study unique educational phenomena. It produces artefacts, practices and theories which can be applied directly in an educational setting thereby engaging the researcher in the direct improvement of educational practice.
Research Staff
Dr Deirdre Barron
Dr Denise Whitehouse
Ms Nicolette Lee
Ms Nicole Wragg
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