Training Designers of the Future: Reflections on a Didactic Case ‘Made in Italy’

Focusing on a specific case, the postgraduate course Product Service System Design taught in English to Italian and international students of the Design Facult y at Milan Pol ytechnic, the author reflects on the present and future of designers as ‘reflexive professionals’ (to quote Donald A. Schön1) called upon to act in uncertain and vaguely defined contexts, tackle problems in highly original ways and come up with wide -ranging, experimental and innovative solutions resorting to complex and hybrid techniques and tools either purposely designed or taken from other fields

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Building University Schools in Teacher Education Programmes

Pre-gradual teacher education involves students’ practice teaching as carried out in so-called university schools or faculty schools. The objective of this digital handbook is to provide various options of implementation of university school concepts in teacher education programmes. General ideas and specific steps comprising organization of collaboration-supporting practices, internship activities and requirements for school-based teacher educators’ competences are presented within this structure. This digital handbook is one of the outputs of Enhancing European Teacher Education through University Schools, an Erasmus+ EdUSchool project aimed to develop a common European understanding of university schools and their concepts among all stakeholders

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