Positioning Technology Education in the Curriculum (International Technology Education Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9460916740 ISBN 13: 9789460916748

Publisher: Brill - Sense, 2011

Synopsis

The position of technology education in the school curriculum is a topic of continuous discussions. This book offers a number of research-based contributions to that discussion. A number of aspects have been identified that are related to the way technology education can be embedded in the curriculum: The historical development of the subject, its disciplinary character, its relation to other parts of the curriculum, and in particular with science and language education, the relation between the formal school curriculum and informal learning, forms of progression over the grades, and its contribution to citizenship, forms of literacy and ethics. The final chapter deals with specific issues for developing countries. The book can support decision making on the curriculum and the development of technology education as a part of that by providing theoretical and empirical insights on this topic.

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About the Author

Marc J. de Vries is assistant professor of the philosophy of technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology and affiliate professor of reformational philosophy at the Delft University of Technology, both in the Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill - Sense
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9460916740
• ISBN 13: 9789460916748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Vries Marc J. De