Making a Case for Design-Based Learning.(graphic design in education)(Abstract)

In the last five years I have served on several national committees concerned with the contribution arts education makes to achieving the goals of education reform in K-12 classrooms. As a university graphic design educator and the only designer on those committees, I frequently must represent the issues and concerns of many design educators and professionals, including architects, industrial designers, planners, landscape architects, and interior designers.

I am continually struck by the perceptions that leaders in art education hold about design and by the missed opportunities to ...

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