ATTITUDE, SKILL, AND KNOWLEDGE: (ASK) A NEW MODEL FOR DESIGN EDUCATION

Abstract

Design education is a multi domain disciplines incorporate different aspects that as a whole aims to create a designer. Designer creation is not a simple task, and require, beside other aspects they have to obtain and acquire during their school years, students to have some aspects impeded in their personality,. Educator’s role is to identify these aspects and direct their curriculum toward them. ASK, as an educational model, aims to identify them by decomposing design education discipline into manageable elements that reflect the main ingredients. The proposed ingredients are: professional attitude, design skills, and professional design knowledge. The main contribution of ASK is the ability to view this domain form a new perspective that is able to reflect the expectations of the professional.