 Technology Education in the Classroom: Understanding the Designed Worldreviewed by Janet Ward Schofield - 1997  Title: Technology Education in the Classroom: Understanding the Designed WorldAuthor(s): Senta Raizen,Peter Sellwood, Ronald D. Todd, Maragret Vickers Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco ISBN: 0787901784, Pages: 249, Year: 1995 Search for book at Amazon.com This is a book explaining and advocating technology education, which the authors define as "K-12 school programs designed to teach understanding and competence in technology and to assess the appropriateness of technological actions" (p. 1). Yet it is really about much more, since if technology education as the authors envision it were implemented in the United States, it would significantly alter the way in which science, mathematics, and other subjects are taught. The changes in the educational system called for here are fundamental and far reaching. Thus, the chances that the book's call for making technology education part of the core curriculum from the earliest grades up through high school will be rapidly or fully implemented are quite small. Nonetheless, this is a potentially important book because it paves the way for broader consideration of the desirability of technology education by developing a vision of what it is that differs in important ways from the images typically conjured up by the term. Further, it presents a... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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