Research on Design Processes of Workshops for Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify characteristic cognitions of the expert practitioner in the design process of workshops. In this study, I performed the experiment that I used Think Aloud Method for two pairs consists of expert practitioners and beginners who belonged to the each same groups of them. At first I performed comparison between expert practitioners and beginners, and, the analysis examined a characteristic to be common to two expert practitioners. As a result, it became clear that the expert practitioner practice family drew up the concept while performing recollection for confirmation and interpretation and the practice experience of request contents. In addition, the study clarified five characteristics of the expert practitioner on designing a workshop; (1) Performing wide confirmation for request contents, (2) Using of their own design models, (3) Mix flexible decision in a design, (4) Having high consciousness about staff upbringing, (5) Design a workshop with custom built by experience of the their own. Furthermore, an expert practitioner seemed to have "the Personal Practice Theory".