Teaching Design and Technology (Developing Science and Technology Education) - Softcover

Eggleston, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 033520824X ISBN 13: 9780335208241

Publisher: Open Univ Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Design and technology is crucial to the national economy and to individual employment prospects. This work shows how design and technology has come to occupy a new and central place in the school curriculum. The author highlights the higher status and new identity now accorded to technology. He explores this new identity, its origins, its manifestations in classroom practice, and its possible futures. He pays particular attention to its role in the national curriculum, to assessment, to gender and race issues, and to management, and includes two entirely new chapters on the training of design and technology teachers and on design and technology in classroom practice.

About this title

About the Author:

John Eggleston is Professor of Education at Warwick University and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University and the University of Central England. He was founding editor of Design and Technology Teaching, is Vice Chair of the Design and Technology Association, Chair of the Young Electronic Design Awards and was Director of the Schools Council Project on Design and Technology.

Review:

"...this book deserves a wide readership. Practising teachers should find plenty to interest them. It looks like a clear favourite for the reading lists of students on initial teacher training courses...." - Design and Technology Teaching "This book is very readable, besides being an important source of reference. It should be part of any induction courses for design and technology teacher training." - Design and Technology Times "Enthusiasm, common sense and understanding of thesubject permeate the text. The book is warmly recommended and is essential reading for everyone with an interest in the teaching and learning of design and technology." - The Journal of Design and Technology

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 033520824X
• ISBN 13: 9780335208241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160