Technology Teachers As Researchers : Philosophical and Empirical Technology Education Studies in the Swedish TUFF Research School.

Intro -- Technology Teachers as Researchers: Philosophical and Empirical Technology Education Studies in the Swedish TUFF Research School -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. TUFF and the Value of Teachers as Researchers -- Section I: Philosophy of Technology -- 2. What Is Technological Knowledge? -- 3. Explanation and Prediction in Technology Education -- 4. Pictorial Realism in Geometric Images and Technical Design -- Section II: Technology Education Research -- 5. Students' Encounter with Technology Education: Testimonies from Compulsory School Technology Classrooms -- 6. The Noble Art of Problem Solving: A Critical View on a Swedish National Test -- 7. To Use or Not to Use a Teacher Support Programme: A Study of What Characterises Swedish Schools that Apply the Inquiry-based Teacher Support Programme, NTA -- 8. Challenge Traditional Structures: Ways of Building Gender Equality in Technology Education -- Section III: Engineering Education -- 9. Why Choose a Regional Engineering Education Programme? -- 10. The Successful Student: A Study Examining How Young Swedish People Represent Engineering Students Discursively -- 11. What You Need to Learn: Engineers' and Industrial Designers' Views on Knowledge and Skills in Product Development -- Section IV: Teachers' Perspective -- 12. Looking for a Glimpse in the Eye: A Descriptive Study of Teachers' Work with Assessment in Technology Education -- 13. Teachers' Beliefs Regarding Programming Education.

This book presents the scientific output of the TUFF research school in Sweden. In this school, a group of active teachers worked together on a series of educational research studies. All of those studies were related to the teaching about technology and engineering. The research program consisted of studies at various angles of view: a philosophical view, a national view, and a classroom practice view.

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