It is primarily orientated to preparing higher education students for professional design practice, and based around project work and studio or atelier teaching methods, while general education uses design methods to improve materials for teachers and students.
Research into the usage of design methodology in various fields would see its incorporation into general education as methods for teaching and a subject to be taught.
His approach to Pestalozzi’s methodology would be from his own religious and practical point of view,[4] where he sought to assist in the development of early age children, who believed to be inherently create and best express themselves through action.
Use of design in education at the higher level would eventually lead to the curriculum being adopted across the United Kingdom.
[5][6] In his lifetime Arthur would commit to his belief that a “designerly” way of approaching scholarly and scientific subjects exists, that is both unique and as powerful when compared to current academia.
The purpose of these conferences was to create a standard for studying and analyzing the curriculum for design and technology that was beginning to emerge in England with the onset of the 1990s.