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Svensson, Maria; Zetterqvist, Ann; Ingerman, Ake – Design and Technology Education, 2012
Immersed in a technologically complex world, young people make sense of a multi-faceted set of events in everyday life. This article investigates the variation in how Swedish young people experience technological systems and is based on interviews focusing three systems concerning transport, energy and communication--contextualised in relation to…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Technological Advancement, Systems Analysis, Phenomenology
Gibson, Ken S.; Bell, Irene – Design and Technology Education, 2011
This paper explores the attitude to Mathematics of B.Ed. (Post-primary) Technology and Design student teachers, in Northern Ireland, and is located within the context of "STEM" (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). The aim of the research is to consider whether students' attitude to Mathematics is different when the subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
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
Lane, Diarmaid; Seery, Niall; Gordon, Seamus – Design and Technology Education, 2010
Research (Fish, 2004) suggests that everybody should be taught how to freehand sketch and utilise it as a tool for supporting the visualising instinct. A fundamental shift in philosophy of the technology education system in Ireland towards design driven subjects brought with it a need to develop practising teacher's technological capabilities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing, Synthesis, Design
Compton, Vicki – Design and Technology Education, 2009
New Zealand has recently released a new national curriculum presented as the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) (Ministry of Education, 2007). This document has significant implications for the future redevelopment of both the compulsory school curriculum and the non-compulsory senior secondary school curriculum. After a general introduction, this paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Leahy, Keelin; Gaughran, William; Seery, Niall – Design and Technology Education, 2009
Design is a discipline which involves many domains, skills and professions. Design practice in Technology education in the Irish second level (high school) context is not a representation of the professional realm of design. Design education in the Irish second level system is generally structured on a linear design process and associated…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Styles, Educational Technology, Design
Trebell, Donna – Design and Technology Education, 2009
This paper explores ways in which data collected during designerly activity in a Secondary Design and Technology Classroom in the UK, can be analysed with a view to ascertaining the features of the classroom interactions which facilitate the development of designerly activity in "fledgling designers" (Trebell, 2007). The paper builds…
Descriptors: Interaction, Educational Technology, Design, Design Crafts
Atkinson, E. Stephanie – Design and Technology Education, 2009
This paper has emerged out of the author's life-long passion for Design and Technology (D&T), which she will refer to as D&T from now on, her on-going research which has informed her practice as a teacher of D&T in England over the past 45 years, and in particular her practice as a trainer of D&T teachers for the past 20 years. In…
Descriptors: Design, Technology Education, Practical Arts, Teachers