Students’ conceptions of learning and learning outcomes in Technology Education

Metsärinne, Mika; Kallio, Manne

doi:10.15663/ajte.v3i1.42

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“…The purpose of this article is to develop a technology education (TE) goal defining a framework based on a TE science network (Metsärinne & Kallio, 2016Metsärinne 2021). The technology education science network (TESN) consists of technical, natural and human sciences and aesthetics in cultures of technology.…”

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Technology education goal defining framework

Metsärinne

2023

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The purpose of this article is to develop theoretical framework for defining technology education (TE) goals. First, approaches to technocratic determinism, the determinism of nature, voluntarism and aestheticism of technology have been considered within the same framework. Second, four alternative definitions for technology (Freenberg, 2007) have been applied within these approaches. Instrumentalism emphasises learners’ creative product production. The critical theory of technology emphasises cultural impact of learners’ product using and learning design knowledge. Determinism emphasises learner technology understanding and substantivism learner technology appraising. Third, analysing by the approaches, a sample of the TE goals of Finnish craft student teachers (n=100) wanted to develop for junior- and high school teaching and learning is described. The goals and the corresponding learning materials showed that they were evenly distributed across all the approaches. The framework provides comprehensive thinking ways for defining TE goals and curriculum.

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“…The TESN has been used to introduce the research design for exploring students' conceptions of learning and learning outcomes in TE (see Metsärinne & Kallio, 2016). After that, the framework was further developed to describe the learning and teaching areas between the four main sciences (see .…”

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Technology education goal defining framework

Metsärinne

2023

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Outlining technical craft as technology and engineering education in Finnish school craft

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Salonen,

Kallio

et al. 2024

Int J Technol Des Educ

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Technology and engineering education (TEE) corresponds to technical craft in Finnish primary and secondary school craft subject. However, there have not been in the specific descriptions of the technology and engineering content in the subject in the national core curricula for basic education since 1994. The research task here was to outline what TEE is in Finnish primary and secondary school craft. The research method was a qualitative case study, based on the experts’ outlines. The core of TEE learning goals definitions, the content of engineering, and its pedagogy was used to analyse the data collected from TEE experts (n = 23). As a result, new theoretical foundations of TEE in general education are presented. The description includes the basics of the conditions of existence for the subject, and its key general leaning goals in the framework of technology education, main in engineering fields and methods and central pedagogical models. The results reveal the diverse and unified structure of TEE to be used in the craft subject in general education and teacher education, and in outlining and studying the future development of TEE.

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Students’ conceptions of learning and learning outcomes in Technology Education

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Technology education goal defining framework

Technology education goal defining framework

Outlining technical craft as technology and engineering education in Finnish school craft

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