Synopsis
This text shows how design and technology has come to occupy a new and central place in the school curriculum and highlights the higher status and new identity now accorded to technology. It explores this new identity, its origins, its manifestations in classroom practice and its possible futures. The author pays particular attention to its role in the national curriculum, to assessment, to gender and race issues, and to management. It concludes with a number of case studies of school practice. This book has been fully revised in the light of new orders for National Curriculum Design and Technology. It is intended for all training and practising teachers of design and technology.
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"...this book deserves a wide readership. Practising teachers should find plenty to interest them. It looks like a clear favourite for the reading lists of students on initial teacher training courses...." - Design and Technology Teaching "This book is very readable, besides being an important source of reference. It should be part of any induction courses for design and technology teacher training." - Design and Technology Times "Enthusiasm, common sense and understanding of thesubject permeate the text. The book is warmly recommended and is essential reading for everyone with an interest in the teaching and learning of design and technology." - The Journal of Design and Technology
About the Author
John Eggleston is Professor of Education at Warwick University and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University and the University of Central England. He was founding editor of Design and Technology Teaching, is Vice Chair of the Design and Technology Association, Chair of the Young Electronic Design Awards and was Director of the Schools Council Project on Design and Technology.
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