期刊名称：Design and Technology Education: an International Journal
印刷版ISSN：1360-1431
出版年度：2019
卷号：24
期号：1
页码：65-78
出版社：Design and Technology Education: an International Journal
摘要：Threshold concept models offer a useful way of understanding aspects of design
education. A threshold concept represents a gateway, or portal, to a more developed
understanding and level of capability (Meyer, Land & Davies, 2008). Passing through a
threshold can be transformative, irreversible, integrative and troublesome. Key
transformations for design have been identified, such as gaining sufficient confidence in
design thinking to enable solution concepts to be generated which are crucial to achieving
capability as a designer.
Empathy has been recognised as a key skill by practicing designers, but one which is
seldom formally taught in classrooms. Drawing on the experience of five workshops held
with transport and engineering design students which aimed to broaden their empathic
understanding, the authors discuss the extent to which empathy may be considered as a
threshold capability.
