Another interesting read that has me excited about the potential for design to impact how students are taught in school today. This book presents a couple of case studies with stories from different schools whose teachers have successfully applied the concepts of cognitive and design problem-solving thinking into their curriculum.

Design-based learning offers genuine promise for preparing students to be thinking, informed citizens who can shape progress in the next century. And, for children, design experiences are intriguing puzzles through which learning comes alive.

The National Endowment for the Arts has long supported the inclusion of design in the K-12 curriculum. In response to growing evidence that design is a powerful tool for transforming curriculum and accommodating the variety of ways in which students learn

This book was written by by Meredith Davis, Peter Hawley, Bernard McMullan, and Gertrude J. Spilka

This document that gives a brief synopsis of the  Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports plan for the education sector. One of key factors of my research study is  to dissect and come to a satisfactory understanding of the current and future goals of this ministry.

One of the three main purposes of the strategic plan was to address three critical areas of  concern within the current education structure. The most interesting to me was  that secondary schools were not producing graduates with the skills and knowledge required to enter the workforce or pursue tertiary education.