1.Teacher Principle: Practice before action
2. End Principle: PICKLE
3. Knowledge: Tools; reflectiong authentic activity, conceptual tools/culture, and analyze content.
4. Learning: Engage students in "playful" activities.
5. The Means: Reflect technologies chosen after mindful consideration.
6. Students as Designers: Engage students using content to construct meaniful outcomes.
In Cosmetology, I use the "Creative Spirit of Desins'" three characteristics with my learners.
1. Imagination: In creating an Updo, haircut or color/highlight on a guest, a PHD (Professional Hairdresser) has to envision what the outcome of that design will look like on that particular guest, or as the article says: "That-which-does-not yet-exsist'.
2. Creation-orientation: as a PHD, we have to shift from physical to abstract and back again, because "one size fits all" does not work in creating a style. They have to "game plan their vision, sometimes on a head sheet and look at the guest's texture, density, porosity and elasticity of their hair. They also have to analyze at the guests' head shape and design their vision to create that design.
3. Inter-disiplinary action: "Collaborating with others" as a Hairdresser we have a saying "Teamwork makes the Dream work!" It is important to collaborate with your teammates, to make sure that your guest is 100% satisfied. Getting different opinions helps you expand you create that personalized deign for you guest.
As a student designer, they learn to be flexible because they will have to adopt as they go, because hair is a material that is different on everybody. They also need to be perceptive to the situation, because there are more than one way to create that design for your guest.
As and educator, "Student as a Designer" is extremely important practice to create a successful PHD. They need to know and understand the foundations of a design, but they need to understand the "One size does not fit all" and they need to understand the three characteristics of being a "Creative Designer" to be successful in the profession.
Here is an example of a PHD, designing an Updo for her guest:
https://youtu.be/VPWs3ndY-ds
It's very helpful to see the "Creative Spirit of Design" applied in the PHD classroom. Part of being a designer is knowing how to articulate what we normally do in the language of design. I think we can all learn from you in terms of bringing the World of Work into our own classrooms.
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