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For most students their end goal is to achieve a level of capability to function as designers in the professional world. Their education helps them construct a passport to enter this community of professional practice. Part of the legacy of the funding initiative in England to support research into teaching has been the development of abetter understanding of a practice-based approach to design pedagogy. This was a principal focus in two centres funded by the initiative in which ‘signature pedagogies’were identified as a distinguishing characteristic for developing student capability within various types of design practice, each of which contains those elements, which are characteristic of the discipline. This notion moves the emphasis away from the content of the curriculum and explores the importance of practical, embodied and experiential ways of knowing. Where these were investigated for product and automotive design the concept of transformative practice was identified as crucial. Designers typically employ two simultaneous interacting cognitive styles. From a five-year longitudinal study involving 89 design students, it became clear that in order to develop the confidence to match these two modes of thought, neophyte designers needed to surmount a barrier, or a threshold concept, which we labelled the toleration of of design uncertainty. Accommodating effective arrangements to accomplish this has reinforced the importance of employing the traditional arrangement of studio teaching and given it a greater focus.  \nKey words  \ndesign pedagogy, higher education, liminal spaces, curriculum  \nIntroduction  \nMuch design education is based on mimicking what professional designers do. Designers engage in the activity of designing to produce designs, and within this process there is a greater emphasis on their being able to accomplish the process of designing than their being a repository of specialist knowledge. Similarly in design education there is a dominance of design practice in which students engage in the process of tackling design exercises, which mimic professional design practice. There is a long tradition of teaching design in this way in our universities and colleges. The purpose of the design project activity is to enable students to become more proficient as they  \ntackle projects, which develop in intensity and detail. Typically they are able to tackle progressively more complex design problems and the end goal is that of achieving a level of capability to function as designers in the professional world. In other words they wish to become part of the community of design practitioners and their education could be regarded as the system they negotiate to enable them to construct a ‘passport’ to enter this community [Tovey, 2012] .  \nFor students the design portfolio could be seen as the physical manifestation of their passport to design practice. They demonstrate that they can tackle design problems toa standard which is recognisably that of their professional community in this selection of their design work. Conventionally the work in the portfolio has been primarily visual, and good representational work including drawing and modelling skills are very important. In many cases, the traditional portfolio has been replaced by a virtual document, but the material will continue to be principally visual. It is important that it demonstrates that the students can think in a ‘designerly’ way, engaging in a ‘solutioning’process. Demonstrating the ability to engage in creative synthesis is probably the most important ingredient in the mix required to achieve this passport to enter a community of design practice.  \nCommunities of Practice  \nThere are many separate groups of designers spe","cbCaivINqlUX1FLg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivINqlUX1FLg","pdf",175647,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Communities of Practice\n## Design and Technology Education: An International Journal 20.2\n# The Threshold of Uncertainty in Teaching Design\n# Design Communities","[{\"question\":\"What is the core focus of teaching design discussed in the document?\",\"answer\":\"It examines a practice-based approach to design pedagogy that helps students develop capability as professional designers rather than relying mainly on curriculum content.\"},{\"question\":\"What threshold concept is identified as necessary for novice designers?\",\"answer\":\"The document labels the threshold as “toleration of design uncertainty,” which helps neophyte designers gain confidence to operate across two interacting cognitive modes.\"},{\"question\":\"How do communities of practice theory and “transformative practice” relate to design learning?\",\"answer\":\"Learning is described as identity formation through participation, and Wenger’s “transformative practice” frames how becoming a creative, critically minded practitioner can generate motivation and meaningful personal and social energy.\"}]","The Threshold of Uncertainty in Teaching Design | PDF",1792091214]