Terry and all,
In my view, useful evidence based research on design thinking can not develop without a useful taxonomic model of what kinds of thinking are involved. I also believe that such a model is essential to education in design thinking in any field. As many of you know I have been developing and testing such a model with school children and against profile outlines on other topics and concepts. The objective has been to identify modes of thought about the kinds of information essential to design thinking and to establish their range and role. Evidence of the use of these modes, why and when they are applied, and to what effect would not be difficult to collect interpret, or apply in teaching or practice. I am no longer in a position to do that research, but would gladly help anyone willing and able to do so. It certainly needs to be done. “They are the essential foundations underpinning theorising about design thinking.”
Or, so I believe,
Chuck
> On May 8, 2018, at 12:14 AM, Philip Whiting <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Evidence-based information on these processes seems to be the foundation needed for checking and evaluating any higher-level theories about design thinking
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> Similarly, evidenced explanation of the same, or very similar, processes is required to explain how and why thoughts transition in themselves or between the different thinking modes.
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> To some extent, and for many circumstances, there appears to be evidence these processes can be theorised about mechanically - in terms of conditioning, fixations and brain-washing based on repetitive learning via more or less explicit rewards and punishments. This can be seen as 'routine' learning (with the emphasis on routine).
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> There are, however, some situations that are different to this and non-routine. These are the situations in which the human as animal develops changes in its responses and ways of thinking that are novel: whose underlying processes extend beyond the mechanisms of conditioning, fixations and brain-washing based on repetitive learning.
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> Evidence-based explanations of the above phenomena are not yet well developed, and yet they are the essential foundations underpinning theorising about design thinking.
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