REQUIREMENTS FOR TEACHING MATERIALS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE DESIGN PROCESS
Year: 2023
Editor: Buck, Lyndon; Grierson, Hilary; Bohemia, Erik
Author: Shimomura, Moe; Loh, Leon; Zhang, Yanfang; Takano, Noriko
Series: E&PDE
Institution: Kyushu University, Faculty of Design, Japan
Section: Sustainable development and working towards UN Sustainable Development Goals
DOI number: 10.35199/EPDE.2023.55
ISBN: 978-1-912254-19-4
Abstract
This study evaluated the worksheets used in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Challenge Project from the students’ perspective, and identified requirements for teaching materials to help students who are unfamiliar with design-based learning learn about the SDGs. We analysed students’ and teachers’ feedback in worksheet surveys. The findings revealed that the ideation process was the most difficult aspect for high school students. The reported reasons were categorised as originality, idea diversification, idea convergence, consistency with problems, feasibility, specificity, iterability, complexity, and procedure. Teachers mentioned that students did not sufficiently focus on problem identification, causing subsequent difficulties in the ideation process. Teaching material should meet the following requirements: (1) demonstrating methods for diversification and convergence of ideas to specify scaffolding, (2) clear goal setting in the problem identification process, and (3) iterability to allow for change according to the design process.
Keywords: Design education, design process, problem identification, ideation, Japan, high school