- Title
- Can twenty years of technology education assist ‘grass roots’ syllabus implementation?
- Creator
- Ginns, Ian; Norton, Stephen; McRobbie, Campbell; Davis, Robert
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/54277
- Identifier
- vital:1372
- Abstract
- Elementary school teachers and teacher educators have expressed concerns about what students learn as they engage in design and technology activities. This study was designed to identify students' understandings of selected technology concepts, and changes in those understandings across a range of age levels corresponding to grades 2, 4 and 6 at elementary school. Following an extensive interview program and subsequent data analysis, it is argued that commonalities and variations in understandings exist within and across age levels. The identification of these commonalities and variations is examined for their implications for classroom teachers, the development of more appropriate design and technology programs, and preservice and inservice teacher education.; E1
- Publisher
- Haarlem-Zuid, Netherlands : International Technology Education Association
- Relation
- Paper presented at 15th Conference on Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology, Haarlem-Zuid, Netherlands : 1st April, 2005
- Rights
- Copyright Unknown
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Technology education; Technology syllabus; Teacher practice; Teacher professional development
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