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Published in: International Journal of Technology and Design Education 3/2010

01-08-2010

Recognizing and fostering creativity in technological design education

Authors: David Cropley, Arthur Cropley

Published in: International Journal of Technology and Design Education | Issue 3/2010

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Abstract

The importance of creativity in technological design education is now clearly recognized, both in everyday understanding and also in formal curriculum guidelines. Design offers special opportunities for creativity because of the “openness” of problems (ill-defined problems, the existence of a variety of pathways to the solution, the absence of pre-specified “correct” solutions). However, teachers are still confronted by the question of how to specify which designs are creative and why, how to identify where the creative strengths of designs lie so that students can build on these, and what advice to give on how to change designs to make them more creative. There are also still open questions concerning design pedagogy. A “functional” model of creativity offers guidelines for making plain to students what they are expected to achieve with their designs and for diagnosing the creativity of the designs they offer. These yield, in turn, guidelines for design pedagogy.

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Metadata
Title
Recognizing and fostering creativity in technological design education
Authors
David Cropley
Arthur Cropley
Publication date
01-08-2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
International Journal of Technology and Design Education / Issue 3/2010
Print ISSN: 0957-7572
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1804
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-009-9089-5

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