Design As A Methodology for Learning Other Subjects by Winifred and Anne Njine

This paper was presented during the 2021 conference on Designing for Children with focus on 'Play and Learn' held online at IDC School of Design IIT Bombay. Winifred and Anne Njine, Technical University of Kenya presented the paper. This paper focuses on the need for educators to re-think how to teach young children, by considering design with a focus on play as a quintessential strategy for learning in the early years. Using Kenya as a case study, this paper argues that the National Curriculum should embed design and creative media, as a means of simplifying the learning designs for the facilitator and learner.