Abstract
Design education ought to create conditions for students to develop skills and competencies for working with values in design. Newly educated designers should take responsibility for their actions – become responsible designers that can contribute to a sustainable and sound development of society on all levels: social, economic and environmental. This case study paper provides an example of how teaching activities made available via an online open educational resource, that offers teaching resources for teaching values in design, can be appropriated to a specific educational setting. A selection of teaching activities and how they were implemented in class are described. Results produced by the students were analysed to see in what way the teaching activities enabled the student to go from addressing values in their work, to actually designing with values in mind. The paper ends with a concluding discussion about the potentials of design teachers to become change agents through their pedagogical practices that enable students to go from knowledge to action.
Keywords
values, design education, responsible designers, teaching activities, open educational resource (oer)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs_lxd2021.01.127
Citation
Nilsson, E.,and Hansen, A.S.(2021) Teaching values in design: A case study about how teachers enable students to go from knowledge to action, in Bohemia, E., Nielsen, L.M., Pan, L., Börekçi, N.A.G.Z., Zhang, Y. (eds.), Learn X Design 2021: Engaging with challenges in design education, 24-26 September, Shandong University of Art & Design, Jinan, China. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs_lxd2021.01.127
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Teaching values in design: A case study about how teachers enable students to go from knowledge to action
Design education ought to create conditions for students to develop skills and competencies for working with values in design. Newly educated designers should take responsibility for their actions – become responsible designers that can contribute to a sustainable and sound development of society on all levels: social, economic and environmental. This case study paper provides an example of how teaching activities made available via an online open educational resource, that offers teaching resources for teaching values in design, can be appropriated to a specific educational setting. A selection of teaching activities and how they were implemented in class are described. Results produced by the students were analysed to see in what way the teaching activities enabled the student to go from addressing values in their work, to actually designing with values in mind. The paper ends with a concluding discussion about the potentials of design teachers to become change agents through their pedagogical practices that enable students to go from knowledge to action.