ISSN:
1573-1804
Keywords:
multidisciplinary technology education
;
design
;
technology studies
;
critique of disciplines
;
art education
;
comparative curriculum
;
politics of curriculum
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Art History
,
Education
,
Technology
Notes:
Abstract Contrary to a tale that is being told in the US, there is no transhistorical, universally pristine organisation of technology. This article resituates technology education in the contested, historico-political terrain to which it belongs. The current, and only, model of the technology discipline is interrogated in order to interrupt a project with roots bound up with a doctrinaire, academic conservatism popularised during the early 1960s. Following a lively critique of the technology mono-discipline, comparative curriculum is used for path-finding and interpretation. Counter to the mono-discipline model of technology, the conceptual parameters of a critical and plural multidiscipline are outlined. ‘Multidisciplinary Technology Education’ (MTE), inspired through efforts in art education, is proposed as a middle path between the technology mono-discipline and Design and Technology. MTE is balanced over four interdisciplines – Practice, Design, Studies and Criticism – with an end in technological sensibility and political sagacity.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008889513151
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