Collaborative Pedagogy in a Design Thinking Education Course

Collaborative Pedagogy in a Design Thinking Education Course

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This article describes a co-taught course that mobilized a Design Thinking approach in the service of creating a prototype for an actual girls’ boarding school in Kenya. The goal of the class was to allow students to engage collaboratively with faculty, with their peers, and with experts “on the gro...

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Main Authors: Rosetta Marantz Cohen, Lucy Mule
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Park University 2019-08-01
Series:InSight : A Journal of Scholarly Teaching
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