Publications & Research

Title

How Design Can Get Kids On the Path to Tech Careers: A Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall, the Founder of a New Type of Science and Math Academy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2010

Abstract

An interview with Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall about educational design and the design of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. "IMSA sought not only to develop decidedly different scientific minds, but also to develop a decidedly different residential learning community -- one that was nurturing and innovative, and one that instilled a sense of stewardship, and an obligation to give back. As a dynamic teaching and learning laboratory, IMSA continues to evolve, yet the roots of our founding ideas and goals remain."

Comments

Author and interviewer, Trung Le, is a principal education designer at Cannon Design. Over the past two years he has helped lead an interdisciplinary group of designers and educators to collaborate on a research project that resulted in the publication The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching & Learning. The term "the third teacher" is derived from Loris Malaguzzi, founder of the Reggio Emilia approach to learning and who wrote about the three teachers of children: adults, peers and the physical environment. Environment, said Malaguzzi, is "the third teacher."

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