Nowadays universities are required not only to impart
knowledge of specific disciplines but also generic graduate
attributes such as communication, problem-solving,
teamwork, creative thinking, research and inquiry skills. For
students to attain these generic skills, educators are
encouraged to use…

There have been books both erudite and popular on knowledge economy and learning challenges. About two decades ago, The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge (1990, 1994) popularised the concept of learning organisations and brought his seeming idealisms into the realm…

The use of context-concept education alongside existing
approaches is valuable. In this article we introduce a threedomain
model for concept-context learning that supports
both the design process as well as the idea of concept
learning. The model shows how practical…

In an ever changing society of the 21st century, there is a
demand to equip students with meta competences going
beyond cognitive knowledge. Education, therefore, needs
a transition from transferring knowledge to developing
individual potentials with the help of constructivist…

This paper explores the pedagogy underpinning the use of
laser manufacturing methods for the teaching of science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at key
stage 3 design and technology. Clock making (horology)
has been a popular project in design and…

The present article examines how practices of computersupported
collaborative designing may be implemented in
an elementary classroom. We present a case study in
which 12-year-old students engaged in architectural design
under the guidance of their teacher and a professional
designer.…

Junior Certificate Technical Graphics was introduced
in Ireland in 1991 and aimed to develop innovative
problem solving aptitudes and knowledge of plane
and descriptive geometry (NCCA 1991). Despite the
philosophy of breadth and balance (NCCA 2004)
associated with educational outcomes…

Good university teaching is considered to be a major
requisite for student learning. However, its representation
in the literature is often related to presage factors such as
personal skills and subject matter knowledge of professors
rather than to activities and…

The book is very interesting in that the author Anna Herbert
attempts to use the views of a number of psychological
analysts to explain how different theories can be used to
develop creativity in the classroom and overcome factors
that…

The internal design thinking behaviour of designers in the
concept development has been an important issue of
cognitive psychology. In this study, the design thinking
process designers have in applying digital media and
traditional paper in the early concept development…