Hidden Factors in Technological Change
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1976
- Latest edition
- Editors: Edward Semper, Philip Coggin, Harry Armytage
- Language: English
Hidden Factors in Technological Change examines the educational implications of living in an advanced technological society and suggests ways in which teaching programs and… Read more
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Hidden Factors in Technological Change examines the educational implications of living in an advanced technological society and suggests ways in which teaching programs and learning situations in schools might be appropriately reoriented. Trends in technological innovation and design are discussed, along with their likely social, aesthetic, environmental, economic, moral, and political consequences. This book is comprised of 20 chapters and begins with an assessment of the wider implications of technological innovation from a variety of different viewpoints, with emphasis on television. More specifically, the social, economic, aesthetic, scientific, moral, and political implications of technology are considered. The next section focuses on various aspects of living with technology, including the use of resources, the quality of life in cities, and transport and communication. The consequences of technology for education, especially the school curriculum, are also discussed. Other chapters explore ways in which schools might begin to develop in their pupils critical, informed, and constructive attitudes to the many opportunities and problems associated with technological change, and thereby help to make technology more accountable to society and more responsive to the wishes of ordinary people. This monograph will be of interest to educators and school administrators, education officials, and science and technology policymakers.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Viewpoints on Some Technological Innovations
Introduction
Economic
Social
Political
Scientific
Moral
Aesthetic
Conclusion
Part II Aspects of Living with Technology
Introduction
Use of Resources
Energy
Materials Science
Water
Food
Cities
Design of a New Town
Safety at Work
Environmental Pollution
Transport
Overland
On Water
Communications
The Mass Media
Dreams of Computers
The Future of Man
Thoughts on Bio-engineering
Our Heritage
Industrial Archeology
Farmer Man
The Technology of Games
Purpose
The Christian Viewpoint
The Humanist Case
The Expertness of Experts
The Ecology of Design
The International Dimension
European Science and Technology
The Third World
Industrial Development in the Third World
Part III Viewpoints on the Curriculum
Introduction
Academic Pointers
Education for a Technological Explosion
Technology and Teachers
Technology Appreciation in Teacher Education
Science in Action
Design Education
Engineering Design
Environmental Studies
Return to Realism
Inventive Thinking in the Primary School
Inventive Thinking in the Upper School
Simulation: In the Classroom
Simulation: Some Models
Simulation: A Case Study
Awakening the Technological Sensibility of Girls
Ways and Means
Problem-Solving
New Resources
Technology in the Middle School
Creative Technology and Control Systems
Opening Windows on Technology
Drama in a Technological Society
Case Histories
In a Girls' School
In a Primary School
In an Upper School
In a Sixth Form
With Unstreamed Classes
Co-Operation between Schools
Education for Survival
Industrial Studies
Safety ...?
Anticipating the Future
Surviving the Future
The Way Ahead
Technological Literacy
Strategies for Development
Epilogue
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- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 1, 1976
- Language: English
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