Nowadays universities are required not only to impart
knowledge of specific disciplines but also generic graduate
attributes such as communication, problem-solving,
teamwork, creative thinking, research and inquiry skills. For
students to attain these generic skills, educators are
encouraged to use…

The present article examines how practices of computersupported
collaborative designing may be implemented in
an elementary classroom. We present a case study in
which 12-year-old students engaged in architectural design
under the guidance of their teacher and a professional
designer.…

Good university teaching is considered to be a major
requisite for student learning. However, its representation
in the literature is often related to presage factors such as
personal skills and subject matter knowledge of professors
rather than to activities and…

The book is very interesting in that the author Anna Herbert
attempts to use the views of a number of psychological
analysts to explain how different theories can be used to
develop creativity in the classroom and overcome factors
that…

This keynote address gives an overview of
some of the key factors in developing a strong
research base for design and technology
education. In particular, the deconstruction and
reconstruction of the conceptual basis of
design and technology as a subject,…

Knobler (1971) notes that within society at least three
communities are affected by intellectual property rights and
these include; the stakeholders who produce and distribute
the new knowledge such as Microsoft or Disney, individual
generators of new knowledge such as…

Title: The Cultural Transmission of Artefacts, Skills and
Knowledge: Eleven studies in technology education in
France
Author/Editor: Jacques Ginestié (Ed.)
Publisher:Sense Publisher
Price Paper back £25
Hard back £50
Reviewed by: Professor Stephanie Atkinson
ISBN: 978-90-8790-426-5
978-90-8790-427-2
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The paper presents the findings of a PhD study into
design decision-making and specifically the use of values
during design decision-making. Firstly it presents a model
of design decision-making as a combination of the use of
knowledge, skills and values…

Knowledge Promotion is the recent curriculum for the
Norwegian 10-year compulsory school. Technology and
Design (ToD) is a new main subject area in Natural
Science. ToD should be taught across the curriculum
between Natural Science, Art and Crafts, and
Mathematics.…