What Ken said about design-based research (in Learning Science) is also how I
understand it. But this is where I see practice-based research (in Art and
Design) MIGHT differ.
Please keep in mind that the theory the Learning Scientists try to develop is a
theory of learning. But there is doubt in Design Research, (particularly
expressed by John Chris), there is NO theory of design, or as Jonas likes to
say, only a history of design is possible.
The difference is significant between research aiming to develop a theory and
research aiming to narrate a history.
Rosan
Ken Friedman wrote:
> While design-based research is not oriented toward controlled
> experiment or the usual array of techniques and approaches that
> we identify with laboratory research in psychology, it is explicitly
> concerned with theory and theory development. Much work in
> this approach involves proposing, trying and testing theories. An
> interesting aspect of the approach is that much theorizing starts
> with tiny models of the type that Andrea Di Sessa describes as
> "humble theory,"
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