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Download full textDatt, Sachin; Chunawala, Sugra – Design and Technology Education, 2018
The focus of Design and Technology (D&T) education (Wilson & Harris, 2004) has been on designing and making activities and in developing technological capabilities amongst students. Innovation is an important aspect of D&T that helps in creating new products and artefacts to overcome the limitations of existing ones. Problem solving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Design, Technology Education, Innovation
Ara, Farhat; Chunawala, Sugra; Natarajan, Chitra – Design and Technology Education, 2011
This paper reports on an investigation into middle school students' naive ideas about, and attitudes towards design and designers. The sample for the survey consisted of students from Classes 7 to 9 from a school located in Mumbai. The data were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively to look for trends in students' responses. Results show that…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Curriculum Development, Surveys, Technology Education
Ara, Farhat; Natarajan, Chitra; Chunawala, Sugra – Design and Technology Education, 2009
This paper presents the strategies employed by Indian middle-school students working in groups to identify three unfamiliar artefacts. The activity described in this paper was aimed at sensitising students to the close link between form and function and to bring a certain amount of uncertainty in the tasks before the actual design task. It was…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Identification, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Group Activities
