Cross, Nigel
(2002).
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Abstract
Understanding the nature of design ability can better enable design educators to nurture its development in their students. Such understanding has been promoted by a wide variety of studies of design activity and designer behaviour. From a review of these studies, design ability is summarised as comprising resolving ill-defined problems, adopting solution-focussed cognitive strategies, employing abductive or appositional thinking and using non-verbal modelling media. These abilities are highly developed in skilled designers, but are also possessed in some degree by everyone. A case is therefore made for design ability as a fundamental form of human intelligence. The nurture of this ability through design education is discussed, with particular reference to what has been learned of the nature of design ability.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| ISBN: | 0-415-26073-6, 978-0-415-26073-2 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Design, Development, Environment and Materials Education and Language Studies > Education |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
| Item ID: | 3288 |
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| Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2010 19:49 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/3288 |
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