This volume in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology is focused upon the provision of experiences in technology education for the general education of all, from early primary school through adulthood.

Klappentext

This book identifies elements in industrial training programs incorporating advanced educational technology that could be appropriately transferred to the secondary school environment. New didactic concepts for developing key qualifications through technology education programs using advanced educational technology in innovative integrative situations are explained from educational, technological, engineering, and management perspectives. The target of the work is to develop integrated learning situations suitable for secondary schools and teacher education, as well as for university-level technology, teacher education, and engineering programs. The book is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held within the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology.

Inhalt
Official Opening and Welcome.- 1. Advanced Technology and Technology Education.- Industry productivity improvement techniques for education: A reverse technology transfer?.- Learning through apprenticeship.- New didactical concepts through the application of Flexible Learning Systems.- 2. Aspects of Identifying Key Competencies.- Identifying key competencies in specific occupational sectors for incorporation into vocational training programmes.- Inclusion of students with significant learning difficulties.- Didactical concepts for developing key qualifications.- 3. Advanced Technology Self-Learning Tools.- The DNA of advanced educational technology.- Working with projects stimulates basal aptitudes.- Technological literacy and humanization.- 4. Didactical Concepts for Advanced Technology.- Thought, language, and technology in school industry link projects.- Technology education: The rural context factor.- Implications of cognitive science for technological problem solving.- 5. Principles of Engineering Courses and Apprenticeship Entry Requirements.- Learning in technical work systems - industrial training models.- Principles of Engineering course: school and industrial collaboration.- Creativity at work: implications for education about work.- 6. Design Methodology and Theory-Practice Links.- Interrelations between design education, design practice, design research, design knowledge.- The elements of technology for education.- Design methodological analyses as a tool for learning about technological developments in industrial settings.- 7. Advanced Technology and Integrative Situations.- The Goals of Mathematical Olympiad and Changing Society in Transition to the Market Economy.- A model for integrated mathematics, science and technology education staffdevelopment.- The role of universities in the transition to a market economy and in regional development.- Using advanced technology to enhance teaching, learning and assessment.- Final Reports of the Working Groups.- Collaboration between educational institutions and the world of work: future directions.- Characteristics of advanced educational technology.- Disciplinary, interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional perspectives.- List of Participants.