tailieunhanh - FosteringHuman Development Through Engineering and Technology Education

Technology Education has gone through a lot of changes in the past decades. It has developed from a craft oriented school subject to a learning area in which the meaning of technology as an important part of our contemporary culture is explored, both by the learning of theoretical concepts and through practical activities. This development has been accompanied by educational research. The output of research studies is published mostly as articles in scholarly Technology Education and Science Education journals. There is a need, however, for more than that. The field still lacks an international book series that is entirely dedicated. | INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION SERIES Fostering Human Development Through Engineering and Technology Education Moshe Barak and Michael Hacker Eds. Fostering Human Development Through Engineering and Technology Education INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION STUDIES Volume 6 Series Editors Rod Custer Illinois State University Normal USA Marc J. de Vries Eindhoven University of Technology The Netherlands Editorial Board Piet Ankiewicz University of Johannesburg South Africa Dov Kipperman ORT Israel Israel Steven Lee Taiwan National Normal University Taipei Taiwan Gene Martin Technical Foundation of America USA Howard Middleton Griffith University Brisbane Australia Chitra Natarajan Homi Babha Centre for Science Education Mumbai India John R. Dakers University of Glasgow UK Scope Technology Education has gone through a lot of changes in the past decades. It has developed from a craft oriented school subject to a learning area in which the meaning of technology as an important part of our contemporary culture is explored both by the learning of theoretical concepts and through practical activities. This development has been accompanied by educational research. The output of research studies is published mostly as articles in scholarly Technology Education and Science Education journals. There is a need however for more than that. The field still lacks an international book series that is entirely dedicated to Technology Education. The International Technology Education Studies aim at providing the opportunity to publish more extensive texts than in journal articles or to publish coherent collections of articles chapters that focus on a certain theme. In this book series monographs and edited volumes will be published. The books will be peer reviewed in order to assure the quality of the .