Seven areas of wood technology illustrates applicable techniques, processes, and products for an industrial arts woodworking curriculum. They are: wood lamination; PEG (polyethylene glycol) diffusion processes; wood flour and/or particle molding; production product of industry; WPC (wood-plastic-composition) process; residential construction; and…

Industrial arts education obviously will be affected by the Vocational Education Act Amendments of 1976, the emphasis on career education, and the national change to the metric system of measurement, but most important, in this author's view is that industrial arts will perservere. (Editor/JT)

Among factors described as contributing to the development of industrial arts are: Froebel's kindergarten, Adler's Workingman's School, the Sloyd system, the arts and crafts movement, and Dewey's Laboratory School. The single most important idea which distinguished industrial arts from other forms of early 20th Century industrial education was the…

A basic method of class evaluation for vocational and industrial teachers is given which employs tools and concepts the craftsman has already mastered. Also given is a system for determining end of unit grades, based in part on standards of the trade in question. (DS)

An interdisciplinary high school program combining industrial education and social science was developed to provide students with an understanding of methods used in modern industry and reasons for a manufacturing economy. (MS)

In order to better understand what industrial arts education is and how it fits into general education, the author advocates looking to the twentieth century progressive educators rather than to the nineteenth century manual training movement. (AG)

Discusses industry-based industrial arts: components of this base; structure of the base; and organizing industry-based industrial arts programs using processing, management, and model enterprise modules. (CT)

Presents data on the special needs student gathered during a national survey on industrial arts education. Areas include accommodation, enrollment, funding, and laboratories. (CT)

Identifies six "back-to-basics" factors that can have a positive effect on future industrial arts education program development: the instructor, students, objectives, content, methods and techniques, and evaluation. (CT)

Cites reasons why industrial arts education should be more prominent in school programs. Discusses concepts considered important in planning curricula. Also examines ways in which industrial arts develops competence, invites human contact, encourages cooperative planning, and takes into account a person's learning styles and styles of involvement.…

Identifies universal themes from different definitions of industrial arts that have evolved to assess the amount of progress or stagnation that has taken place in the past 10 to 15 years. (CT)

The need for industrial education for many developing countries has involved them in implementing some career education concepts (awareness/exploratory, preparation, and specialization stages) in their industrial arts educational programs, utilizing such program guidelines as program financing, personnel development, and the availability of…

To instruct prospective and practicing industrial education teachers to be resourceful in the classroom, the utilization of all available resources and scrap materials for constructing various models and material testing devices for industrial education classes is discussed. (LH)