Teaching Technology
Published on 2. December 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-0-415-10254-4 (ISBN)
Description
Technology is a new and rapidly changing area of the curriculum. For experienced teachers in school as well as for students and novices, it has involved the need for a whole new range of knowledge and skills in teaching.
This reader draws together already published articles and newly commissioned material from leading authors in the field to help teachers at all stages of their professional development to understand the principles which need to be considered whatever the detail of the National Curriculum in this subject. It looks at the development of technology as a school subject, at the ways in which pupils learn and teachers teach it, and at its place within the wider contexts of education as a whole and of the society which technological developments help to shape.
This reader draws together already published articles and newly commissioned material from leading authors in the field to help teachers at all stages of their professional development to understand the principles which need to be considered whatever the detail of the National Curriculum in this subject. It looks at the development of technology as a school subject, at the ways in which pupils learn and teachers teach it, and at its place within the wider contexts of education as a whole and of the society which technological developments help to shape.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-10254-4 (9780415102544)
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Edited by Frank Banks at The Open University
Content
Introduction Part I The development of technology education 1 What is 'technology'? 2 Technological capability 3 What is design and technology education? 4 Technology in the national curriculum: getting it right 5 The coming of technology education in England and Wales Part II Learning technology 6 Learning through design and technology Assessment of Performance Unit 7 The importance of graphic modelling in design activity 8 A comparison between the nature of modelling in science and design and technology 9 The relationship between 'modelling' and designing and making with food as a material in design and technology 10 A critique of the design process 11 The general problem-solving process in technology education: myth or reality? Part III Teaching technology 12 Planning for capability and progression for design and technology in the national curriculum 13 Organising project work 14 The role of group/team work in design and technology: some possibilities and problems 15 Teaching STS: games, simulation and role-play 16 Assessment of design and technology 17 'One in five': design and technology and pupils with special educational needs 18 Craft, design and technology and the gifted child Part IV Current issues in technology education 19 Vocational education, general education and the place of technology 20 How design and technology can contribute to the development of pupils' economic and industrial understanding 21 Gender and technology education 22 Valuing in technology 23 Science and technology: partnership or divorce.