Reading 1: Notes

What is research?
By: Leedy/ormrod

Knowledge is incomplete
Problems are waiting to be solved
Always seek answers

1. Research originates with a question or problem.
2. Research requires clear articulation of a goal.
3. Research requires a specific plan for proceeding.
4. Research usually divides the problem into more manageable subproblems.
5. Research is guided by the specific. Research problem, question, or hypothesis.
6. Research excepts certain critical assumptions.
7. Research requires the collection and interpretation of data in an attempt to resolve the inital problem.
8. Research is, by nature, cyclical or, more exactly, helical.

The landscape of graphic design education
By: Meredith davis

Concepts are more important than the application of practise

Students with backgrounds in other subjects offer perspective on audiences for context of design

Theory vs. Software...

Knowledge based graphic design is relational and dynamic

Anticipate change and take responsibility for method of change...

Healthy professions transform themselves

Graphic design education is to prepare future practitioners to anticipate and manage change

Audience and context are as important as the design itself

Research agenda...engage audience as co-creators....provide research informing others...

Consider the mentoring of future administrators

Graphic design education as a liberal art: design and knowledge in the university and the "real world"
By: Gunnar swanson

Consider graphic design as a liberal art

Liberal arts are: not mechanical, not utilitarian, would not restrict the mind, studied for intrinsic value.

Current liberal arts: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy

University's provide life training to make more intelligent productive members of society

Graphic design education is vocational training

Create adaptable students

Design should be about meaning and the creation of meaning

Graphic design is about persuasion

Design as a liberal arts vs. Design + liberal arts...

Interior design students should also study marriage & family, sociology, etc...

Other fields can provide basic consideration for design issues

Most professional education begins with general knowledge concluding with specialization

Does design offer anything besides a job?

Design bridges fields as diverse as engineering, marketing, education, & psycology