Failed Expectations, Successful Disruptions: Experimenting pattern-cutting from a student-centred learning perspective

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2020-09-01

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en

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International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education

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This article studies an experimental pattern-cutting workshop part of a series of extension courses offered by a Brazilian University. It addresses ways in which to develop student-centred approaches to learning, highlighting the situatedness of the practitioner. In the workshop, the participants were invited to explore personal experiences as informants to their creative pattern-cutting process. The design outcomes show that experimental exercises are open to new successful encounters but also to failure, chance and disruptions. The activity is described and investigated from a participant observation viewpoint in terms of what an experimental approach to learning pattern-cutting may offer fashion design education. The results contribute to understand the roles of expectations in pattern-cutting activities, and challenges the teacher-orientation paradigm in fashion. Through these findings, the study adds to previous academic endeavours in creative pattern-cutting and fashion design education. The article concludes with a discussion on future directions for both education and practice.

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Pattern-cutting, experimental pattern-cutting, student-centred learning, fashion design education, learning-centred approach

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Valle Noronha, J, Chun, N & Assis, J 2020, ' Failed Expectations, Successful Disruptions : Experimenting pattern-cutting from a student-centred learning perspective ', International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 238-246 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17543266.2020.1778798