Design in Technology Education: Current State of Affairs

Haupt, Grietjie

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-44687-5_48

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“…In contrast, engineering and technology are the professional fields that take design as an important and distinguishing activity (e.g., Daly et al 2012;Haupt 2018;Simon 1996). It is common and important for novices and experts alike to learn and think about design in the fields of engineering and technology, and to develop a design mindset.…”

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Design and Design Thinking in STEM Education

Schoenfeld

diSessa

et al. 2019

Journal for STEM Educ Res

167

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Design and design thinking are vital to creativity and innovation, and have become increasingly important in the current movement of developing and implementing integrated STEM education. In this editorial, we build on existing research on design and design thinking, and discuss how students' learning and design thinking can be developed through design activities in not only engineering and technology, but also other disciplines as well as integrated STEM education.

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Section: Everyone Designs and Can Designmentioning

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Design and Design Thinking in STEM Education

Schoenfeld

diSessa

et al. 2019

Journal for STEM Educ Res

167

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“…Several studies have addressed STEM integration, and the ways of doing so vary from perceiving STEM as a single discipline to taking a transdisciplinary approach that regard STEM as a multi-component discipline (Bybee, 2013;English, 2016). As emphasised by Haupt (2018), the evolving perspectives in technology education, which include the emphasis on knowledge, process, and products, highlight the crucial role of teachers in keeping the TDP central in the curriculum. This is essential in bridging the gap between opposing viewpoints.…”

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“…Methodology refers to themes focusing on the TDP that suggest the structuring of design procedures and strategies. Values refer to soft skills; attitudes; efficacy judgements; ethics; the effects of technology and artifacts; social awareness; cultural, environmental, technical, and economic values; and environmental sustainability (Haupt, 2018).…”

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An introduction to functions and variables in technology education, in a STEM-centred context at the elementary level

El Fadil,

Ridha

2023

AJTE

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STEM education is gaining popularity in primary and high school curricula worldwide, emphasizing effective instructional methods. This article discusses a case study using the Technology Design Process (TDP) to create teaching materials to introduce variables and functions in a mathematical context at the elementary level. The TDP's iterative stages were used in the development, and data was collected from different sources: pre- and post-questionnaires, as well as a working document dealing with pupils’ understanding based on designing, making, testing, and simulating. Nineteen students from a fourth-grade classroom (9–10 years old) participated in the study. The results indicate that STEM activities enhance classroom engagement and math learning while fostering problem-solving skills in a transdisciplinary context. This research encourages elementary teachers to incorporate more STEM activities and emphasizes the importance of the design process for critical thinking and practical skills. It also suggests that technology teachers include these design process steps in their teaching to develop engineering design skills and spark student interest in STEM subjects.

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“…To encourage such students, interesting options are engineering competitions, such as the Formula SAE race and Chain Experiment competitions, which emphasize engineering experience related to designing, constructing and testing real hardware or contraptions (Dziob et al 2017;Schuster et al 2006). Both competitions naturally incorporate design education, with students working towards a unique solution to a pre-defined problem (Haupt 2017) and creating a technological result. In this process, students develop a plan and then implement it through making (Mitcham 2001).…”

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Physics competition to inspire learning and improve soft skills: a case of the Chain Experiment

Dziob

Górska

Kołodziej

et al. 2020

Int J Technol Des Educ

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The Chain Experiment competition has been held successfully for 6 years in Poland and is attracting growing interest. The competition provides participants with a task that involves designing and constructing a contraption that is an element in a chain of events that are based on various physical phenomena. The contraptions are then linked together in a chain and made to run consecutively. The operation of a contraption starts when it receives a ball from the preceding contraption and ends when it releases another ball to the next contraption. The process of constructing the contraptions includes elements of design education. This paper examines whether participating in the competition has a positive impact on the soft skills, social abilities and motivation of the participants, as well as their learning performance, mainly in physics. Questionnaires completed after the fifth running of the competition suggest that active participation in the Chain Experiment could have a positive impact on participants' soft skills and their abilities to solve problems, and it might also increase scientific knowledge, general interest in physics and science and motivation to be involved in similar challenges. The claim is that the format of the competition can stimulate versatile development of the participants and is a good way to arouse students' interests in physics and engineering, even in the very early stages of their education.

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Design in Technology Education: Current State of Affairs

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Design and Design Thinking in STEM Education

Design and Design Thinking in STEM Education

An introduction to functions and variables in technology education, in a STEM-centred context at the elementary level

Physics competition to inspire learning and improve soft skills: a case of the Chain Experiment

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