Teacher as Designer: Design Thinking for Educational Change
About this ebook
The book begins by examining a number of prominent design processes being used by educators including human-centred design, designing for authentic inquiries, and Universal Design for Learning. It then delves into how teachers, system leaders, and students can engage in educational design within the complex spaces of K-12 contexts. Finally, the book takes up design in education within a maker and making context. Each chapter includes a vignette, a series of guiding questions, along with specific design principles that can help address common challenges and issues educators encounter in their practice.
This book provides both theoretical and practical elements involved in educational design and is beneficial to scholars, graduate students, educators, and pre-service teachers.
About the author
Jennifer Lock Ph.D., is a Professor and Vice Dean in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her area of specialization is in the Learning Sciences. Dr. Lock’s research interests are in the following areas: e-learning with a specific focus in online learning, online learning communities, and developing capacity of online educators; technology integration in education and teacher education; change and innovation in education; educational development and the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education; and learning through making and makerspaces.
