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Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Practical, and Empirical Perspectives

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Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Practical, and Empirical Perspectives
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The learning sciences, informed by a diversity of fields such as cognitive science, anthropology, education, and sociology, has a long history with design while engaging in the study of learning in real-world, non-simplified contexts. From its genesis approximately thirty years ago, the learning sciences as a field has grown to encompass the study of learning from different lenses, as well as to advance theories of learning through the design and study of new technologies and environments. Within the realm of the learning sciences, the concept of design and design thinking is of great consequence as it helps us understand how teaching and learning happen in the rapidly changing 21st-century knowledge society, as well as can be used to inform the design of effective, innovative, and equitable interventions. Design thinking in the learning sciences can be made manifest in activities ranging from iterative curriculum design, to researching affordances and constraints of tools, techniques, and learning environments, to appropriating design concepts in both physical and digital spaces. It also sheds light on how the socio-material histories of materials inform learning and participation. This bibliography focuses on learner-centered design principles and how various research methodologies (e.g., participatory design and design-based research) contribute to appropriating design thinking into learning, teaching, and pedagogical processes. The evolution of this field is interwoven in the powers of design.
Date
January 12, 2021
In publication
Oxford Bibliographies
Series editor
Peurach, Donald J.
Resource type
en
Resource status/form
en
Scholarship genre
en
IRE Approach/Concept
Design Thinking
Learning Sciences
Participatory Design
Design-Based Research
Co-Design
Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR)
Networked Improvement Community (NIC)
Research Practice Partnership (RPP)
Open access/full-text available
en No
Citation
Saxena, P., Sedas, R. M., & Peppler, K. (2021). Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Practical, and Empirical Perspectives. In Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0267

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