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Åsa Mäkitalo; Mark Elam; Anne Solli; Sandra Ferraz Freire – New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction, 2019
How can young people make use of digital tools and methods to get to grips with the risks and dilemmas arising out of contemporary science, technology and society relations? This chapter addresses the forms of agency enabled through a set of techniques for exploring and visualizing controversial technoscientific issues on the web. Given the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science and Society, Appropriate Technology, Concept Mapping
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Tebelius, Ulla – Convergence, 1992
A Swedish folk high school program was focused on practicing an alternative style of living in a resource-saving and small-scale technology way. Emphasis was on examining the Western way of living from an ecological, human, and global perspective. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Appropriate Technology, Conservation (Environment), Folk Schools
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Brodin, J. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1998
A study investigated 57 Swedish day centers for individuals with mental retardation found that half of the staff had not received information on assistive devices and that inservice training was primarily with communication devices, mobility aids, and lifting devices. Knowledge of time control devices was limited. (CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Day Care Centers