Overview
- Situates critique in a philosophical and historical context
- Provides readers with critical insights into a range of areas of design and technology education in a single book
- Generated through a collaborative process by an international group of authors, thus providing readers with coherent yet diverse perspectives
- Provides the reader with insights that have local and global resonance
Part of the book series: Contemporary Issues in Technology Education (CITE)
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About this book
Critique can be a frame of mind, and may be related to a technology, product, process or material. In a holistic sense, critique is an element of a person’s technological literacy, a fundamentally critical disposition brought to bear on all things technological. This book provides a reasoned conceptual framework within which to develop critique, and examples of applying the framework to Design and Technology Education. The book builds on The Future of Technology Education published by Springer as the first in the series Contemporary Issues in Technology Education.
In the 21st century, an ‘age of knowledge’, students are called upon to access, analyse and evaluate constantly changing information to support personal and workplace decision making and on-going innovation. A critical Design and Technology Education has an important role to play, providing students with opportunities to integrate economic, environmental, social and technological worlds as they develop and refine their technological literacy. Through the design and development of technology, they collaborate, evaluate and critically apply information, developing cognitive and manipulative skills appropriate to the 21st century. Critique goes beyond review or analysis, addressing positive and negative technological development. This book discusses and applies this deeper perspective, identifying a clear role for critique in the context of Design and Technology Education.
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Keywords
- Application of Critique
- Basis of Critique
- Concept of Critique
- Critical disposition
- Critique and critical thinking
- Critiquing education
- Critiquing literature
- Critiquing technology
- Design education
- Modeling as critique
- New Technologies
- Teaching and learning critique
- Technology education
- critical practice
- critical thinking
- disposition in education
- philosophical argument for critique
- reflective writing
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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The Basis of Critique
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Critique in Design and Technology Education
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The Application of Critique
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Kay Stables is Emeritus Professor of Design Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. A founder member of the Technology Education Research Unit (TERU), she has directed and contributed to projects in primary and secondary education in the UK and abroad. With Richard Kimbell, she authored the TERU retrospective, Research Design Learning (2007). More recently, together with Steve Keirl, she published Environment, Ethics and Cultures: Design and Technology Education’s contribution to sustainable global futures (2015), an edited collection of theoretical and practice based approaches. Her recent research has focused on design, creativity and sustainable development, digital tools in assessment (the e-scape project) and designer well-being, as well as creating dialogic frameworks to support the development of D&T capability, including in digital environments.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critique in Design and Technology Education
Editors: P John Williams, Kay Stables
Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Technology Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3106-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3104-5Published: 27 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9791-1Published: 04 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3106-9Published: 21 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2510-0327
Series E-ISSN: 2510-0335
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 320
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Technology, Science Education, Educational Philosophy, Creativity and Arts Education