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Andrew Rockliffe – Design and Technology Education, 2025
Design and Technology (D&T) in the UK is approaching a crisis point, with declining enrolment, staffing shortages and increasing marginalisation in the curriculum. However, this paper argues that D&T is not a problem to be solved. Rather, it is a solution to be scaled. Positioned at the intersection of material practice, iteration and…
Descriptors: Design, Technology, Foreign Countries, Creativity
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Citrohn, Björn; Stolpe, Karin; Svensson, Maria; Bernhard, Jonte – Design and Technology Education, 2022
This study aims to investigate affordances of models and modelling in design projects in technology education. To learn more about affordances when working with models and modelling, four Swedish technology teachers were interviewed using a narrative approach. Despite a small number of informants data were rich, containing detailed descriptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Design, Models
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Riikonen, Sini Maarit; Kangas, Kaiju; Kokko, Sirpa; Korhonen, Tiina; Hakkarainen, Kai; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita – Design and Technology Education, 2020
The purpose of the present investigation was to analyze the pedagogical infrastructures in three cycles of seventh graders' co-invention projects that involved using traditional and digital fabrication technologies for inventing and creating complex artefacts. The aim of the projects was to create high-end multi-material makerspaces by expanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Shared Resources and Services