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International Journal of Technology and Design Education

Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. • ISSN: 09577572

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Promoting student engagement using project based learning as service-based skills development

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This paper develops a Problem-Based Learning as a Service-Based Skills Development (PBL-SBSD) model that aims to meet student curriculum needs by providing them with lifelong skills while solving an identified real-life problem in their community. The paper introduces a six-stage cyclical model comb…

Exploring the effects of the 6E instructional model on learners’ metacognitive behaviors in 3D modeling

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The acquisition of 3D modeling competencies is becoming increasingly critical within the domain of design education. Nonetheless, conventional teaching methodologies frequently fall short in cultivating the advanced cognitive capabilities demanded in the current AI landscape. This research examines …

The impact of the design thinking model on pre-service teachers’ creativity self-efficacy, inventive problem-solving skills, and technology-related motivation

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Creativity and problem-solving are 21st-century skills that students must have to respond to the complex world dominated by technology. Teaching activities integrating Design Thinking (DT) have the potential to cultivate individual skills. As future in-service teachers, pre-service teachers need to …

How are Chinese traditional handicraft skills inherited from master to apprentice?

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The inheritance of traditional handicraft of intangible cultural heritage is facing an unprecedented crisis. The essence of inheritance is the process of imparting and inheriting from master to apprentice, but there is acute shortage of research about the parties, the relationship and the behavior o…

The contribution of 3D computer modeling education to twenty-first century skills: self-assessment of secondary school students

Article Open Access
In this study, the contribution of the 3D computer modeling to the twenty-first century’s common competencies was evaluated from the perspective of secondary school students. The one-group post-test only design was used in the study. The instruments of the data collection process were an achievement…

The role of sense of community and motivation in the collaborative learning: an examination of the first-year design course

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The demand for creating collaborative learning environments in technology education highlights the needs to enhance student collaborations in their learning process. Aiming to increase individual contributions of students to develop a more collaborative learning environment, this study investigated …

Project-based learning oriented STEAM: the case of micro–bit paper-cutting lamp

Article Open Access
The main purpose of the living technology curriculum is to cultivate students' interest in learning science and technology, and further to utilize their experience of learning instructions and develop their ability to integrate interdisciplinary knowledge and skills. In recent years, as countries ha…

Characteristics of student engagement in high-school robotics courses

Article Open Access
Student engagement has been described as active involvement in a learning activity that significantly affects learning achievement. This study investigated student engagement in robotics education, considering it as an instant emotional reaction on interaction with the teacher, the peers, and the ro…

Using an iSTEAM project-based learning model for technology senior high school students: Design, development, and evaluation

Article Open Access
The purposes of this study were to integrate imagination and STEAM education to construct a special topic course on wearable devices for pets for technology senior high school students studying electronic science; to explore the impacts of the learning process on students’ imagination, STEAM compete…

Analysis on trends of technology education shown in national curriculum at the elementary level in Republic of Korea

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This study discusses the past and present of technology education in elementary schools of the Republic of Korea through an understanding of practical arts, one of the subjects taught in Korean elementary schools. Since technology education is carried out in Korean elementary schools through a subje…

A technology education teaching framework: factors that support and hinder intermediate technology education teachers

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There is a lack of clarity concerning the capability and capacity of intermediate technology education teachers within the Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada context. This article presents the technology education teaching framework (TETF) which was developed from the analysis of data related to fact…

Perceptions and attitudes of pupils towards technology: In search of a rigorous theoretical framework

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The perceptions and attitudes of pupils towards technology have been researched for just over three decades. Recently, following an extensive review of the available literature, Ankiewicz (in: De Vries (ed) Handbook of technology education, Springer International Handbooks of Education, 2016. https:…

Informing a pedagogy for design and problem-solving in hard materials by theorising technologists’ learning experiences

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Design and problem solving are central to technology and have distinguished learning in technology from other curriculum areas. This research investigated how expert technologists learn design and problem solving through experience. Data was collected from four expert technologists and this informat…

Influence of problem-based learning strategy on enhancing student’s industrial oriented competences learned: an action research on learning weblog analysis

Article Open Access
In order to respond to the ever-changing global economic environment, the technological and vocational education system in Taiwan needs to be dramatically reformed to the changing needs of the domestic industrial structure. Integrating practical talents with practical industrial experiences and comp…

Representations in simulated workplaces

Article Open Access
In vocational education students are to be prepared to participate in communities of practice. Hence they need technical skills as well as content knowledge e.g. science and mathematics. Research has shown that the instructional strategy of guided co-construction may lead to deeper understandings wi…

Attitudes towards science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in a project-based learning (PjBL) environment

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Many scholars claimed the integration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education is beneficial to the national economy and teachers and institutes have been working to develop integrated education programs. This study examined a project-based learning (PjBL) activity that i…

Teachers' views about technical education: Implications for reforms towards a broad based technology curriculum in Malawi

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Internationally there has been concern about the direction of technical education and how it is positioned in schools. This has also been the case in Malawi where the curriculum has had a strong focus on skills development. However, lately there has been a call for enhancing technological literacy o…

Technical education in Scotland: Fit for purpose?

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As Technical education strains to find a niche in the educational market place, are teachers suffering from a crisis of confidence? How comfortable are they with the ever-changing curriculum, with the subjects they are teaching and the reasons why they are teaching them? The broadening of the Techni…

Editorial: Creating communities in technology education - Introduction to the special issue

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Framework for the Study of Cognitive and Curricular Issues of Technological Problem Solving

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Technology education has undergone extraordinary changes in the last decade. Educators and educational policy makers have become aware of the importance of technology in the basic formation of today's educated person. At the same time rapid and continuous change in technology itself poses serious ch…