The article develops the argument that
Technology Education has a particular and
important role in achieving sustainable futures
within different societies. The starting point for
this article is an observation of two boys
making toys out of materials that would

One way of raising the efficiency of a scholar’s
learning and achievement is to improve
teaching strategies employed by staff and the
learning strategies adopted by the learner.
Teachers have long recognised that learners
differ in how they learn and…

Innovation Education (IE) is a new subject area in the
Icelandic national curriculum. The aim is to develop
students’ abilities to innovate, with a particular focus on
ideation skills. A Virtual Reality Learning Environment has
been subsequently developed to provide…

This paper reports on a research study exploring the value
of interactive media to enhancing creativity in Design and
Technology (D&T) students. The literature review
contextualises the issues of self-management and risktaking
as phenomena which need to be managed and

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…

Gilbert Ryle (1949) divided knowledge into “know that” and “know how”, which is neatly appealing to many design and technology educators, and like many writers on developing the curriculum, Kahney (1993) made a distinction between declarative knowledge:

verbal knowledge,…

Both the concept of sustainable development and the nature of education for sustainable development (ESD) are highly contested. ESD can be construed as a part of sustainable development policy as governments attempt to bridge the ‘value-action gap’ between what we…

This paper presents the strategies employed by Indian
middle-school students working in groups to identify three
unfamiliar artefacts. The activity described in this paper
was aimed at sensitising students to the close link
between form and function and to bring…

This article is an interim report on a research project concerning the place of Design and Technology in selected primary schools at a time of curriculum change.There is a particular focus on the influence of the processes surrounding acts of…

This paper presents qualitative research recently undertaken by the Head of Learning at the Design Museum. The research explores how learning in the museum’s workshop programme for schools is conceptualised by the museum educators who devise and teach on the…