Aside from celebrating the work of Marc J. de Vries, this book also highlights the need for further work, effort, and energy to improve learning about technology. It is a collection of essays written by experts from the philosophy of technology and education. They have written about their perspectives on how a future education about technology must better relate to the technologically textured world we now inhabit: a world in which the continuing exponential evolution of technology is affecting virtually every aspect of our lives. This book serves as a clarion call to all those responsible for school-based education.
Contributors are: Piet Ankiewicz, Frank Banks, Moshe Barak, Hilda Ruth Beaumont, Dennis Cheek, Osnat Dagan, John R. Dakers, Wendy Dakers, Marc J. de Vries, Christian Detweiler, Andrew Doyle, Wendy Fox-Turnbull, Lena Gumaelius, Jonas Hallström, Alison Hardy, Eva Hartell, Pasi Ikonen, Henk Jochemsen, Alister Jones, Hanna Kauppinen, Steve Keirl, Richard Kimbell, Dov Kipperman, Roel Kuiper, Mike Martin, David Mioduser, Carl Mitcham, Sonja Niiranen, Charlotta Nordlöf, Aki Rasinen, Philip A. Reed, Timo Rissanen, John M. Ritz, Marion Rutland, Elwin Savelsbergh, Alice Schut, David Spendlove, Kay Stables, Kendall N. Starkweather, Maarten van der Sanden, Gerald van Dijk, and Maarten J. Verkerk.
John R. Dakers is an independent researcher and author working at the crossroads of philosophy and education. He has published monographs, edited collections and journal articles. His last book is entitled
A Nomadic Pedagogy about Technology: Teaching the Ongoing Process of Becoming Ethnotechnologically Literate (Brill 2023).
Acknowledgements
Explainer
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Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction to This Festschrift for Marc J de Vries: A Book Full of Dreams about the Future of Technology Education
John R Dakers 2 A Most Unusual Philosopher
Carl Mitcham 3 A Vision of Technology Education; A USA Perspective
John M Ritz 4 The Role of Technology Education in Facing the World of Tomorrow: A Perspective based on Knowledge Traditions
Charlotta Nordlöf 5 From Capitalist Vision to Curriculum Crisis: Navigating the Politics of Design and Technology in England’s Education System
David Spendlove 6 Back to the Future: (Re)imagining a History-based Technology Curriculum
Jonas Hallström 7 Empowering Students to Bridge the Gap into a Knowledge-Driven Technological Realm: The Case of Technology Education in Israel
Moshe Barak 8 Technological Concepts and Technical Contexts for Technology Education
Andrew Doyle 9 The Wisdom, Power and Promise of Marc J. de Vries’ Thoughts
Kendall N. Starkweather 10 A Technology Curriculum for 2030 and Beyond
Hilda Ruth Beaumont 11 The Design Concept/Methodology – A Personal Professional Voyage
Osnat Dagan 12 A New Future for Technology Education in Wales: A Case Study of Curriculum Ambition
Frank Banks 13 Developing a New Technology Curriculum for an Urban Setting: Tales of Trials, Tribulations and Tiny Triumphs
Gerald van Dijk and Elwin Savelsbergh 14 Enduring Concepts and Pluralistic Perspectives for Educating through Designerly Thinking, Doing and Acting towards Positive World Futures
Kay Stables 15 Wood Cloud: A composition of Intensity for Collaborative Learning
Maarten C.A. van der Sanden 16 Food as an Aspect of Technology Education in the 21st Century
Marion Rutland 17 Why It Is Essential That (Ethno)Technological Literacy Is Embodied into STEM and STEAM Education
John R Dakers 18 Technology Education in Context: Beyond Consumer Cultures
Mike Martin 19 Who Are We Fooling with Schooling? Why We Must Break from a Nineteenth Century System and Educate for the Twenty-First Century
Philip A. Reed 20 The Genesis of Contemporary Technology Education: From Attitude Studies to a Mature Field
Piet Ankiewicz 21 Design Learning at the Limits of Pedagogy
Richard Kimbell 22 Directions for Technology Education in Finland
Sonja Niiranen, Aki Rasinen, Pasi Ikonen, Timo Rissanen and Hanna Kauppinen 23 Talking Technology into the Future
Wendy Fox-Turnbull 24 A Strategy for Moral Formation of Professionals
Henk Jochemsen 25 Family Prospects and the Oblate Spheroid
Steve Keirl 26 Technology Ethics at Work: Innovation and Education
Maarten J. Verkerk 27 Technology and Tradition
Roel Kuiper 28 Whose Idea Is It Anyway?: Designing with Generative AI
Alice Schut and Christian Detweiler 29 Adapting the Design and Technology Curriculum: A Framework for Evaluation and Evolution
Alison Hardy 30 Nurturing Design and Technological Thinking: A Core Goal in Technology Education
David Mioduser 31 Opportunities Won: Unexpected Encounters: Narratives from Practitioner-Based Research
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All those responsible for the delivery of technology education in schools and beyond. Policymakers, curriculum developers, academics, student teachers and PhD students.