Prompted through the continuing debate between technology educators over ‘nature of science’, and its value at school and collage curricula, this e-book is a clarion demand a extensive re-conceptualizing of nature of technology in technological know-how schooling. The authors draw at the ‘family resemblance’ process popularized by way of Wittgenstein, defining technology as a cognitive-epistemic and social-institutional method whose heterogeneous features and impacts could be extra completely mirrored in technological know-how schooling. They search anyplace attainable to elucidate their constructing thesis with visible instruments that illustrate how their principles could be essentially utilized in technology education.
The volume’s holistic illustration of technological know-how, along with the goals and values, wisdom, practices, concepts, and methodological principles (as good as science’s social and institutional contexts), mirrors its middle target to synthesize views from the fields of philosophy of technological know-how and technology schooling. The authors think that this extra built-in belief of nature of technology in technology schooling is either cutting edge and priceless. They talk about intimately the results for curriculum content material, pedagogy, and studying results, installation various real-life examples, and aspect the hyperlinks among their rules and curriculum coverage extra generally.