Design Technology Child Engine

This work is not designed to be exclusively a compendium of readily-adapted classroom ideas or engineering techniques, the authors' intent is rather to make a contribution to the repertoire of useful strategies for orchestrating design technology experiences. The book presents a grassroots, child-centred approach to true education transformation - educators may see this as part of a new progressivism which includes such elements as co-operative learning, the whole language approach to literacy, and inquiry approaches in science and mathematics. The chapters of the book roughly follow an approximation of the design process, from context to case studies.