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Tiêu đề
The Byproducts of a Graphic Design Education: An Ethnographic Case Study
Tác giả
Bagchi P.
Năm xuất bản
2021
Source title
Springer Series in Design and Innovation
Số trích dẫn
0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-61671-7_55
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
This paper shares empirical insights gathered on the byproducts of a graphic design education. The term byproducts refer to the soft skills in communication, collaboration, and reflection developed by students studying graphic design. The data was gathered using ethnographic methods during field research for a doctoral project on transnational design education. The research explores the value of a British design education in Sri Lanka, a country with a different social, economic, and cultural context using the example of a transnational franchise partnership between a university in England and a private design institute in Sri Lanka. Upon reflection, design graduates at the Sri Lankan design institute deemed their soft skills as vital in equipping them with the resilience to navigate their local industry where academic qualifications in the field of design are not particularly valued. Accounts of professional experiences of graduates in England compared to examples of contextually specific challenges faced by graphic design students and graduates in Sri Lanka illustrate how their soft skills helped develop a sense of professional agency. The aim is to provoke considerations for contextually appropriate curricular development for transnational graphic design programs by borrowing from the essence a liberal education. © 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Từ khóa
Design context; Soft skills; Transnational design education
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Nơi xuất bản
Springer Nature
Hình thức xuất bản
Book chapter
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus