Design Education: Creating Thinkers to Improve the World is a curricular resource that offers theoretical concepts and practical advice for teaching lessons in design to PreK-12 grade students. The book is for art educators at the preK-12 level in schools; museums; and enrichment programs; and university professors in teacher preparation programs. Design education is about problem-solving; learning through objects of our daily lives; and the role design plays in social responsibility and the creative economy. Designers utilize research methods; technology; sketching; and the construction of prototypes. The basis of these techniques; systems; and tools may be taught to Prek-12 students. Students need lifelong skills that build their creativity and problem-solving capabilities to better understand the world and themselves and use visual communication to advance their abilities to express ideas. Design is a study about life and can touch on all school subjects; making it a valuable interdisciplinary study. Students are able to directly apply thinking strategies and learning about facts; figures; and concepts at the same time they are crafting meaningful ideas about the importance; influence; and social implications of everyday items and the potential to improve the world.
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