Practically Creative: The Role of Design Thinking as an Improved Paradigm for 21st Century Art Education

Authors

  • Delane Ingalls Vanada

Abstract

Art and design education hold a unique role in preparing the kinds of innovative, balanced, synthetic creators and thinkers needed in the 21st century. This paper sheds shed light on how learner-centered art classrooms, that incorporate design thinking as a balanced process, can better develop the overall learning capacity of students. In a mash-up between mixed model research involving the impact of learner-centered pedagogies on visual art students’ balanced intelligence and reviews of literature surrounding the promotion of depth and complexity of knowledge, new conceptual frameworks and assessments are offered. Towards a vision of fostering deep, connected, and independent thinkers, the author—as designer, artist, and art educator-- explores design thinking as an aesthetic, inquiry based process that integrates complex intelligence theories.

Keywords: Design thinking, critical, creative, practical thinking, learner-centered, learner-centered
pedagogy

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Vanada, D. I. (2014). Practically Creative: The Role of Design Thinking as an Improved Paradigm for 21st Century Art Education. Techne Series - Research in Sloyd Education and Craft Science A, 21(2). Retrieved from https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/techneA/article/view/1262

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2014)

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Artikler

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