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Over the last few months we have all been battered
(bored) to death with the controversy surrounding the
resignation of Andrew Mitchell, the former Chief Whip of
the Conservative party, for allegedly calling a policeman a
‘pleb’. I recently had…

This is a publication in Sense's 'International Technology
Education Series': a peer-reviewed series edited by Rod
Custer and Marc de Vries. The book is a collection of
invited essays, edited by Moshe Barak and Michael Hacker
and grouped into four…

The paper describes the importance of graphicacy as a key
communication tool in our everyday lives. The need to
better understand the development of graphicacy and its
use in the school curriculum is emphasised. The need for
a new research…

This paper presents an investigation into Indian
elementary and middle school students’ images of
designers. A ‘Draw a designer at work’ test was used with
511 students from Classes 5 to 9 from a school located in
Mumbai. Findings from…

Sustainable design education is now considered a core
issue for industrial/product design courses, however
research has shown that the predominant focus tends to
be on environmental issues, as social issues are much
harder to tackle. Similarly, social issues are rarely

The aim of this article is to contribute to the debate on the
nature of technology education. This is especially pertinent
at times of curriculum change and uncertainty, such as
currently exist in relation to the Primary school curriculum
in…