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Download full textNievergelt, Verena Huber – Design and Technology Education, 2020
This article discusses a case study combining the qualitative analysis of documents and videofootage. The data was collected during a short collaborative task within an ideation phase with 9-10 year old pupils customizing a store-bought t-shirt. The combination of video and document analysis allows tracing back the emergence of some of the kernel…
Descriptors: Design, Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Dialogs (Language)
Autio, Ossi – Design and Technology Education, 2022
The aim of this study was to find out if there have been any changes in technical abilities among Finnish school children during the last 30 years. Technical abilities were first measured in the affective, psychomotor, and cognitive areas in the year 1993 and these results were later compared with the results from 2012 and 2022. The number of test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Technology Education, Trade and Industrial Education
Jaatinen, Juha; Lindfors, Eila – Design and Technology Education, 2019
Finland has its own version of a "makerspace": craft class. Originally, there was one craft class for boys and one for girls. Later, there were classes for different materials, especially for wood and textiles, which are deep-rooted concepts in the Finnish crafts mindset. To reclaim craft class for pupils, or "makers", we must…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Design, Compulsory Education, Educational Innovation
Hughes, Chris; Bell, Dawne – Design and Technology Education, 2011
This paper discusses ongoing research into the role of design and technology education in emerging post industrial economies. Previous work (Hughes et al., 2010) focused on the changing characteristics of textiles technology in modern times and discussed how this could inform a design and technology curriculum related to the needs of a modern…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Curriculum Design, Technology Education, Teacher Attitudes
