Preliminary Material / Marc J. de Vries and Ilja Mottier -- Two decades of technology education in retrospect / Marc J. de Vries -- A retrospective look at what was essential for technology education during the past 20 years / Kendall N. Starkweather -- Comparing perspectives: Comparative research in technology education / Margarita Pavlova -- Is the whole more than the sum of its components? An analysis of technology education in ORT schools around the world / Alejandro E. Ferrari , Marcos Berlatzky , Mario Cwi , Luis Perez , Dov Kipperman , Sergey Gorinskiy and Osnat Dagan -- Changing practice and changing lenses: The evolution of ways of researching technology education / Howard Middleton -- Twenty years of educational standards for technology education in the United States / William E. Dugger Jr. -- Changes and progress in elementary technology education / Daniel E. Engstrom -- The evolution of technology education in the United States: The case of North Carolina / Marie Hoepfl -- Technology education and the influences of research / John Ritz and Philips Reed -- From ideas to fruition – external funding and its impact on technology education / Gene Martin -- Reflections on twenty years of wandering through the pathways and forest of technological education in Ontario, Canada / Ann Marie Hill -- Developments in technology education in Canada / George J. Haché -- Technological education and environmental sustainability, a critical examination of twenty years of Canadian practices and policies / Leo Elshof -- Technology education in Australia: Twenty years in retrospect / P. John Williams -- The developing field of technology education in New Zealand: The last twenty years / Alister Jones -- The rhetoric and reality of technology education in Hong Kong / Ken Volk -- The Japanese word “GIJUTSU”: Should it mean “skills” or “technology”? / Toshiki Matsuda -- A change of industrial technology education curriculum and development of a design learning support system for technology education / Sumiyoshi Mita , Toshiki Matsuda , Jun Iwaki and Takahisa Furuta -- The centrality of designing – an emerging realisation from three curriculum projects / David Barlex -- ‘I think therefore I design’ (When Descartes met Bronowski) / Tony Lawler -- The inclusion of food technology as an aspect of technology education in the English school curriculum / Marion Rutland -- A case study of the inter-relationship between science and technology: England 1984-2004 / Frank Banks and Robert McCormick -- Unorthodox methodologies: Approaches to understanding design and technology / Kay Stables and Richard Kimbell -- Technology education in Scotland: An investigation of the past twenty years / John Dakers -- Mapping reform in Scotland's technology education curriculum: Change and curriculum policy in the compulsory sector / Robert A. Doherty and Brian Canavan -- From dualism towards an emphasis on talent: An overview of curriculum development in Flan.

This first volume in the International Technology Education Series offers a unique, worldwide collection of national surveys into the developments of Technology Education in the past two decades. For twenty-two countries from five continents the major changes of this school subject are described by experts that have been involved in these changes for many years themselves. The studies deal with national curricula, teacher education programs, educational research into effects of Technology Education, and practical issue at classroom level. After the 15th International Pupils’ Attitude Towards Technology conference which was held in Haarlem in April 2005, a distinguished group of scholars from the area of Technology Education decided that after 20 years it was time to give account of the state of the art in this area. This book should be of interest to students, teachers, researchers and policy-makers who are involved in technology education.

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