Many vocational education, technology education, and now technology and engineering education leaders have made their mark on the teaching profession. Their legacy is something that members of the profession enjoy and have a responsibility to continue and build upon. The Legacy Project focuses on the lives and actions of leaders who have forged…

Assimilation into society via academic achievement is a premise and practice that is universal in schools and school systems. Drawing on the testimonies of technological education teachers and the sociology of knowledge literature, this narrative inquiry research sets the stage for a critical analysis of our reliance on knowledge versus experience…

This article presents a descriptive study designed to determine the national status of secondary technology education curriculum content and assessment practices as they relate to engineering design. The results of this study were divided into a three-part article series. Although this study focused on the larger construct of the national status…

Based on the efforts to infuse engineering practices within the technology education curriculum it is appropriate to now investigate how technology education teachers are assessing engineering design activities within their classrooms. This descriptive study drew a full sample of high school technology teachers from the current International…

The author describes the tenets of the Holmes group report and discusses how it relates to industrial teacher education. (JOW)

Identifies six obstacles to change, discusses innovative curricula and their impact on the changing role of the teacher, and lists teacher education and professionalism as two plausible solutions to help bring about educational change. (GR)

Using the results of the Standards for Industrial Arts Programs Project, the authors reflect on the lack of impetus for change in industrial arts, the disparity between the definition of industrial arts and its practice, the lack of consensus about content, and the relative freedom of teachers to structure industrial arts curricula. (SK)

Survey responses from 28 (of 41) industrial technology departments found some common elements in the shift from industrial arts: change in program philosophy, closer relationship with business/industry, greater emphasis on computers and problem solving, and less emphasis on laboratory projects. (JOW)

Discusses two reform movements affecting public schools: (1) the transition of traditional industrial arts curriculum to technology education and (2) the reform in teacher education. (JOW)

Teacher trainers may react to metrication in one of three ways: ignore it; mistakenly believe it is being taught in science courses; or investigate the Systeme Internationale (SI) metric, learn it, and teach it. Specific reading materials are recommended, and ten actions for industrial teacher educators are suggested. (AG)

Responses to the Stages of Concern Questionnaire by 42 of 59 technology education/industrial arts teachers in Nebraska revealed that technology education is not accepted by industrial arts teachers. Older, more experienced teachers are revising or altering technology education curriculum before accepting it. (SK)

The authors take the reader on a journey into the modern industrial education classroom as an exercise in awareness and offers questions so that teacher may evaluate themselves. (Author)

Suggests a model of industrial education for the Arab world to help create an industrial middle class. Reviews existing Eurocentric industrial training models and proposes a synthesis of these models with Arab-Islamic culture in a kind of "industrial university," the Djamiat Al-Sinah. Illustrates the proposed curriculum with a…

Industrial arts must be prepared to respond to the changes brought about by contemporary technological advancement. The impact that technology will have upon people and the impact of information processing upon man and his world should be of major concern to industrial arts educators. Principal areas of consideration should be the effects of…

Five presentations are provided. "Technology Teacher Education: A Framework for Program Redesign" (Thomas Erekson, Scott Johnson) discusses the design and development of a technology teacher education program at the University of Illinois with lists of course requirements and illustrations of course sequence. "Teacher Preparation in…