Table of Contents

Part I. Researching 'What Is Technology and Technologies Education?': 1. The contexts of technologies and technological knowledge; 2. Key ideas in the technologies curriculum; 3. Designing and creating preferred futures; 4. Creativity in design; Part II. The Curriculum in Action: 5. The curriculum in action - digital technologies; 6. Technologies contexts - food and fibre production and food specialisations; 7. Technologies contexts - engineering principles and systems, and materials and technology specialisations; 8. The curriculum in action - project management; Part III. Pedagogical Practices for Technologies: 9. Planning, assessment and evaluation in technologies; 10. Planning for teaching technologies: analysing the pedagogical approaches.

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Technologies for Children presents a comprehensive array of contextual examples for teaching design and technology to children.

About the Author

Marilyn Fleer is the Foundation Chair of Early Childhood Education at Monash University, Victoria.