Collaborative Pedagogy in a Design Thinking Education Course

Authors

Rosetta Marantz Cohen, Smith CollegeFollow
Lucy W. Mule, Smith CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

Publication Title

InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching

Abstract

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 ground" to develop the various parts of the school, from the mission to the curriculum to the building design. The article describes the rewards and complexities of this kind of hands-on pedagogy in a higher education context.

Volume

14

First Page

29

Last Page

42

Rights

© the authors

Comments

Archived as published.

Recommended Citation

Cohen, Rosetta Marantz and Mule, Lucy W., "Collaborative Pedagogy in a Design Thinking Education Course" (2019). Education and Child Study: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/edc_facpubs/5