caa a22 4500 445844388 CHVBK 20180317145354.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10798-009-9107-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10798-009-9107-7 "If I was going to design a chair, the last thing I would look at is a chair”: product analysis and the causes of fixation in students' design work 11-16years [Elektronische Daten] [Ros McLellan, Bill Nicholl] Creativity is acknowledged to be important for economic growth and as an everyday life-skill, however several influential reports have suggested that education could do more to harness creative talent. Creative cognition literature suggests the lack of creativity is at least partly the result of ‘fixation' (difficulty in generating novel ideas due to imagination being ‘structured' by existing knowledge). This paper focuses on the secondary (students aged 11-16years) design and technology (D&T) context in the UK. Here we examine whether teacher practice can contribute to fixation by focusing on one specific facet of teacher practice in D&T; the use of product analysis to inform the generation of creative design ideas. Data is drawn from the preliminary phase of a research and intervention project from interviews with D&T teachers (N=14), students (N=126) and lesson observations (N=10) and an analysis of documents and student work. Product analysis is widely used at different points in design projects but, as is shown, in all cases current practice can lead to fixation, as thinking is constrained down specific paths and tasks are at best at procedural rather than comprehension level. The implications of these findings and tentative ways forward for practitioners are discussed. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2009 Creativity nationallicence Fixation nationallicence Ambiguity nationallicence Risk nationallicence Scaffolding nationallicence Task demands nationallicence McLellan Ros Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 184 Hills Road, CB2 8PQ, Cambridge, UK aut Nicholl Bill Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 184 Hills Road, CB2 8PQ, Cambridge, UK aut International Journal of Technology and Design Education Springer Netherlands 21/1(2011-02-01), 71-92 0957-7572 21:1<71 2011 21 10798 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-009-9107-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-009-9107-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McLellan Ros Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 184 Hills Road, CB2 8PQ, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nicholl Bill Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 184 Hills Road, CB2 8PQ, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Technology and Design Education Springer Netherlands 21/1(2011-02-01), 71-92 0957-7572 21:1<71 2011 21 10798 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer