Design and Technology Education and Its Curriculum Policy Challenges

Digital Design Literacy in K-12 Education

“…Schön argued that "all of us make things out of the materials of a situation under conditions of complexity and uncertainty" and, therefore, "designing in its broader sense constitutes the core of practice in (…) everyday living" (1992,. More recently, and Keirl ( , 2006 have argued that design should be for everyone because the design of new digital technology has significant roles to play in empowering contemporary citizenship and democracy and design offers major educational opportunities to support the new literacies needed in the foreseeable future, both from the perspective of individual development as well as to accommodate the future job market Sheridan and Rowsell 2010;Iversen, Smith, and Dindler 2017).…”

“…However, some of the issues raised back in the 80s exist to this day e one of them being how to assess students' design literacy. More recently, , , and Keirl ( , 2006aKeirl ( , 2006b have argued that design Towards a formal assessment of design literacy should be for everyone. It is argued that design and technology have significant roles to play in citizenship education and democracy .…”

“…Finally, we discuss the validity of these findings, their implications, research contributions, and limitations. , and Keirl (2006) have argued that design was relevant for all, and that design therefore should be "put back in the hands of everyone" . In line with this, introducing design as a literacy in middleschool has previously been suggested by authors such as , , and Razzouk and Shute (2012).…”