1st Edition
Design Education A Special Issue of the Journal of the Learning Sciences
Edited By Wendy C. Newstetter
Copyright 2000
132 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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This is Volume 9, Number 3 (2000) special issue of the Journal of Learning Sciences and focuses on Design Education. Design as a vehicle for applying and extending content knowledge is central to engineering education. In this issue the reader is offered three articles on middle- school-age children learning in the context of design. Two articles report on research projects in in formal educational settings with large numbers of students; the other chronicles one girl’s learning over a weekend in an informal online setting.
Volume 9, Number 3, 2000
Contents: W.C. Newstetter, Guest Editor's Introduction. Articles: C.E. Hmelo, D.L. Holton, J.L. Kolodner, Designing to Learn about Complex Systems. P.M. Sadler, H.P. Coy, M. Schwartz, Engineering Competitions in the Middle School Classroom: Key Elements in Developing Effective Design Challenges. A.S. Bruckman, Situated Support for Learning: Storm's Weekend with Rachael.
Contents: W.C. Newstetter, Guest Editor's Introduction. Articles: C.E. Hmelo, D.L. Holton, J.L. Kolodner, Designing to Learn about Complex Systems. P.M. Sadler, H.P. Coy, M. Schwartz, Engineering Competitions in the Middle School Classroom: Key Elements in Developing Effective Design Challenges. A.S. Bruckman, Situated Support for Learning: Storm's Weekend with Rachael.
Biography
Wendy C. Newstetter Cognitive Science Program Georgia Institute of Technology
