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Critique in Design and Technology Education
. Ed(S): Williams, P. John; Stables, Kay
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Description for Critique in Design and Technology Education
Hardback. Editor(s): Williams, P. John; Stables, Kay. Series: Contemporary Issues in Technology Education. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JNU; JNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 666.
This book addresses notions of critique in Design and Technology Education, facilitating a conceptual and practical understanding of critique, and enabling both a personal and pedagogical application to practice.
Critique can be a frame of mind, and may be related to a technology, product, process or material. In a holistic sense, critique is an element of a person’s technological literacy, a fundamentally critical disposition brought to bear on all things technological. This book provides a reasoned conceptual framework within which to develop critique, and examples of applying the framework to Design and Technology Education. The book builds on The Future ... Read more
This book addresses notions of critique in Design and Technology Education, facilitating a conceptual and practical understanding of critique, and enabling both a personal and pedagogical application to practice.
Critique can be a frame of mind, and may be related to a technology, product, process or material. In a holistic sense, critique is an element of a person’s technological literacy, a fundamentally critical disposition brought to bear on all things technological. This book provides a reasoned conceptual framework within which to develop critique, and examples of applying the framework to Design and Technology Education. The book builds on The Future ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Issues in Technology Education
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811031045
SKU
V9789811031045
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About . Ed(S): Williams, P. John; Stables, Kay
Professor P John Williams is the Director of the STEM Education Research Group in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia, where he teaches and supervises research students in technology education. Apart from New Zealand, he has worked and studied in a number of African and Indian Ocean countries, as well as Australia and the United States. He directed ... Read more
Reviews for Critique in Design and Technology Education
“The authors present a wide range of perspectives around design and technology activity stretching and challenging in roughly equal measure; thus espousing the ideas of critical theory. … This is an essential read for the thinking design and technology teacher, teacher educator or researcher. Prepare to be challenged. Prepare to be bamboozled. Prepare to think. But read it nonetheless.” (Matt ... Read more