Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education

High school students are in an important stage of life. They may be thinking about college and career while having daily social interactions where their peers and teachers continually influence their attitudes and interests about their future. They are also preparing to enter a world in which expand…

The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education reform movement has swept across the USA due to an urgent need for more workplace-ready STEM employees. As a result of the STEM education reform movement, there has been an increase in research studies concerned with STEM educati…

This article presents the results of a study aimed at understanding potential implications of the project-based approach to teaching science and technology (S&T). A survey of 221 secondary teachers shows that the meaning of this approach hangs on attributes that make it difficult to characterize and…

Co-ops and internships complement students’ classroom learning and constitute important contributors to the quality of engineering education. In light of Stephen Billett’s affordance-engagement framework, we reviewed 30 selected empirical studies on undergraduate engineering students’ co-op and inte…

We argue that the case of technology education in British Columbia demonstrates quite readily the invulnerability of teachers, as a group, to curriculum reform. While technology teachers have been able to negotiate centralized control with relative political ease and autonomy, they have been much mo…

Canada’s system of technology educationis complex and diverse. Each province hasjurisdiction over its own curriculum, standards, program delivery, graduation requirements, and finances. Technology education in Canada is an evolving subject. Not only are technologies themselves constantly changing th…