Teaching Thinking Skills: The Development of Design Concepts in School Pupils.

Northing, Carol

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ERIC Number: EJ391369

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Publication Date: 1989

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Teaching Thinking Skills: The Development of Design Concepts in School Pupils.

Northing, Carol

Journal of Art and Design Education, v8 n1 p23-36 Spr 1989

Identifies the distinct paradigms concerned with the teaching of craft and the teaching of design, two elements which are interdependent in an art course. Reports teaching experiments that encourage pupils to seek out visual analogies of shapes and shape-relationships. Advocates the incorporation of guided concepts into pupils' techniques. (KO)

Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Design, Design Crafts, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Visual Arts

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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