A Contextual Approach Selected essays on technology New Technologies in Science Education and the Internet A Thematic approach to teaching Technology Technology . It is a phenomenon that has shaken us all out of our quiet comfort over the past few years. We have been swept along by the winds of change. Even though we may not have realised it, we have adapted, more or less, to this storm that has shaken us from our technological slumber. Knowledge, skills, and resources are combined to help solve practical problems.
Technological practice takes place within, and is influenced by, social contexts.
Technology Curriculum Statements have been released in most countries but still a desperate chasm separates the intention of these documents and the interpretation that has been foisted upon it. This title conjures up the technologies that we are so familiar with and have so much contact with, both through media hype and in physical form. Still fewer have asked whether the process of technological implementation and development is a generic set of skills that can be taught and encouraged. These are the questions that the Technology Curriculum addresses. Indeed it attempts to set out a prescription to integrate the many elements that make up the technology process.