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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.

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Author:   Frank Banks
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138177840

ISBN 10:   1138177849
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   01 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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Edited by Frank Banks at The Open University

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