Students involved in holistic technological practice need to develop an understanding of technological practice outside the classroom and to participate in tasks set as close as practicable to actual technological practice. This paper investigates the context of assessment and its relationship to achievement and the importance of teacher knowledge…

It is argued in this paper that various approaches are available in designing teaching and learning experiences for technology education. However, many approaches are based on inappropriate assumptions about transfer, the ways in which meaning is represented by individuals and relationships among different kinds of experiences. It is advanced that…

Examines the historical and philosophical roots of science and technology. Offers a case study of the overhead projector to illustrate the need for materialistic reading of the historical/philosophical roots of technology and science; argues that this would raise the status of technology education so that it can become a more widely accepted…

Scientific technology is an institutional complex of articulated knowledge and skills that depends on social responsibility. This paper addresses a theoretical approach through discussion of rational thought as a guide for rational action, rational thought as a form of rational action, and technology as a form of knowledge. (Author/AEF)