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Öztürk, Ahsen; Korkut, Fatma – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
Some of the key challenges for STEM education in Turkey include the problems encountered by teachers when integrating diverse disciplines and technologies into STEM activities, the need for teachers to acquire the skills necessary to prepare and implement appropriate STEM activities for the educational level of their students and their school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, STEM Education
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Lin, Kuen-Yi; Chang, Liang-Te; Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Kao, Chia-Pin – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2015
Curriculum reform has frequently focused on the curriculum-development stage, overlooking considerations regarding curriculum implementation, which has led to reform failure. In this study, consideration was placed primarily on the curriculum implementation stage. The gaps between teachers' and students' perceptions of content, learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Doyle, Andrew; Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal; Buckley, Jeffrey – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
A philosophical shift in policy now situates the development of technological capability as the focus of Irish technology education. Internationally, the effectiveness of curricular reform in the discipline has previously been called to question, as the legacy of the preceding vocational craft subjects has been seen to throttle the evolution of…
Descriptors: Design, Technology Education, Educational Policy, Educational Philosophy
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Yu, Kuang-Chao; Fan, Szu-Chun; Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Chu, Yih-hsien – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
This article examines the effect of scientific detective video as a vehicle to support the design of technology activities by technology teachers. Ten graduate students, including current and future technology teachers, participated in a required technology graduate course that used scientific detective videos as a pedagogical tool to motivate…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Video Technology, Curriculum Design, Graduate Students
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Soygenis, Sema; Erktin, Emine – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2010
This paper discusses the Archimath programme, which was designed to develop awareness of the built environment in elementary school students, and to initiate an effort to improve it. Acknowledging the relationship between education and awareness of the environment, the programme was constructed for use with elementary school students selected from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Introductory Courses, Architecture
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Pavlova, Margarita – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2009
This article addresses the issue of how sustainable development might be conceptualised and used to advance technology education practice. It is argued that a conceptualisation of sustainable development based on a combination of weak anthropocentrism and value based approaches within particular social, environmental and economic contexts provides…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Models, Moral Values, Sustainable Development