Beyond the discipline : A metadisciplinary approach for the didactics of communication design

Authors

  • Gimapero Dalai Alpaca Società Cooperativa
  • Berta Martini Dipartimento di studi umanistici, Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
  • Luciano Perondi Dipartimento Planificazione e Progettazione in Ambienti Complessi
  • Monica Tombolato Dipartimento di studi umanistici, Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v3.50

Keywords:

Didactics, Teaching of communication design, Curriculum development, Learning outcomes, Professional social practices

Abstract

We reflect specifically on the curriculum for bachelor’s level program in communication design. We propose a model of education which we define as “metadisciplinary” and which is grounded on the acquisition of competences rather than the acquisition of specific contents. Our objective is to show how a metadisciplinary didactic model can benefit from the weak epistemological status of the knowledge base of communication design. According to the idea that didactics can be treated as a science of design, we propose a model of educational design based on a metadisciplinary stance.

First we describe two fundamental aspects of the model proposed: (1) the development of habitus of thought and action and (2) the distributed and collective nature of expert knowledge. Next, we discuss the notion of curriculum architecture. Finally, we describe a basic set of metadisciplinary competences that we have identified for students in the field of communication design.

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Published

2018-12-20

How to Cite

[1]
Dalai, G., Martini, B., Perondi, L. and Tombolato, M. 2018. Beyond the discipline : A metadisciplinary approach for the didactics of communication design. INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad. 3, 6 (Dec. 2018), 021–051. DOI:https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v3.50.