Becoming: What Does it Mean to Be an Education Designer?
As design is becoming integrated into K-12 classroom learning with the aim of helping students to become creative, confident and courageous problem finders and problem solvers; Maureen Carroll will explore a question: What does it mean to be an education designer?
Maureen’s talk will highlight her research journey on the impact of design in the world of education. Maureen’s qualitative research journey begins with a burning question. For her, this question was to understand the role of design in K-12 classrooms. Her understanding changed and grew in unexpected, challenging and surprising ways over the twelve years she has been studying it. In this talk Maureen will highlight different aspects of how design changed, education changed, and how she changed.
Prior to the talk you may like to explored Maureen’s research in the following selected articles:
Maureen proposed that the “Design Thinking provides a robust scaffold for divergent problem solving, as it engenders a sense of creative confidence that is both resilient and highly optimistic.” (Carroll, 2014, p. 3) As a teacher, she advocates “that a successful learning journey is one where we learn as much as we teach” (Carroll & McBain, 2021, p. 17). However, for the teacher to develop that mindset she suggested that “the typical notion that the teacher/mentor is the all knowing and immune to failure [has to be] reconceptualized.” (Carroll, 2015, p. 69)
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Maureen Carroll, Ph.D., is the Founder of Lime Design. Carroll has been teaching at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) for over a decade and was the Director of REDlab, which conducts research on the intersection of design and learning. She was also a lecturer in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, where she co-taught Educating Young STEM Thinkers. Maureen is currently working on a research project that combines machine learning and qualitative research methods in order to understand more about the transformation that happens during students’ d.school learning journeys.
The talk is part of the Engage with Ideas monthly series, which explore the relationship between design, education, and society. Recordings from the past Engage with Ideas sessions are available here.
References
Carroll, M., & McBain, L. (2021). Where Empathy Meets Learning: Exploring Design Abilities in K–12 Classrooms. Voices from the Middle, 29(1). https://library.ncte.org/journals/vm/issues/v29-1/31424
Carroll, M. (2015). Stretch, Dream, and Do – A 21st Century Design Thinking & STEM Journey. Journal of Research in STEM Education, 1(1), 59–70. http://stelar.edc.org/publications/stretch-dream-and-do-21st-century-design-thinking-stem-journey
Carroll, M. (2014). Shoot For The Moon! The Mentors and the Middle Schoolers Explore the Intersection of Design Thinking and STEM. Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 4(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs_lxd2021.12.227
Carroll, M., Goldman, S., Britos, L., Koh, J., Royalty, A., & Hornstein, M. (2010). Destination, Imagination and the Fires Within: Design Thinking in a Middle School Classroom. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 29, 37–53. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2010.01632.x
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