Environment, Ethics and Cultures : Design and Technology Education’s Contribution to Sustainable Global Futures / / edited by Kay Stables, Keirl Steve.

• Superior document: INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION SERIES ; 5
• HerausgeberIn: Stables, Kay.; Steve, Keirl.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Language: English
• Series: INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION SERIES ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"This collection engages environmental, ethical and cultural values perspectives to show how Design and Technology (D&T) Education actively contributes to the significant educational goal of attaining sustainable global futures. An international collection of authors representing all levels of education articulate how D&T research, curriculum theory, policy, and classroom practices can synergise to contribute positively to the education of children for sustainable global futures. The book offers a spectrum of theorised curriculum positions, political and policy analysis, and case studies of successful school practice. A key word in the title is that of contribution which is construed in several senses: first, of D&T as a vehicle for understanding the range of political and social values that arise with such a major educational challenge; second, of D&T as an agent of critical and practical action for students as global citizens; third, by taking global and multiple perspectives (rather than, say, Western or mono-cultural positions); and, fourth, by demonstrating D&T’s capacities for working in holistic and integrative cross-curricular ways. The authors show how students can not only learn about their potential as humans-as-designers but can also develop designerly capacities that enable them to contribute meaningfully in practical ways to their communities and to wider society, that is, as global citizens who can apply design capability in ethical ways that are respectful of peoples, cultures and environments alike.".

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Steve Keirl -- Introducing the Book / Kay Stables and Steve Keirl -- Environment / Kay Stables -- Global Ethics, Sustainability, and Design and Technology Education / Steve Keirl -- Culture in Design, Technology, and Environment / Kurt Seemann -- In(di)geneity in Design and Technology Education / Peter Cole and Pat O’Riley -- Design and Technology Education for Sustainable Futures / Margarita Pavlova -- Designing for Cultural Groups and Humanization / Kurt Seemann -- Agency and Understanding / Kay Stables -- Policy Formulation and Enactment / Susan V McLaren -- Against Neoliberalism; For Sustainable-Democratic Curriculum; Through Design and Technology Education / Steve Keirl -- Sustaining Pedagogical Practice to Promote Productive Problem Solving / Christine Edwards-Leis -- Kartogrifa In-Flux / Tristan Schultz -- A Case Study of Education for Sustainable Development / Michael Gaotlhobogwe -- The Shoe Show / Tony Lawler -- With Head, Hand, and Heart / Terry Wilkinson and J. Lawrence Bencze -- Introducing Ideas of a Circular Economy / James Pitt and Catherine Heinemeyer -- “We Have to Create a Way to Catch Flashes in Order to Get Electricity” / Iris Lüschen -- Sustainability + Fun = A Change in Behaviour / Ben Chappell -- Opening up the Four Walls / Larry Spry -- Author Biographical Notes / Steve Keirl -- Index / Steve Keirl.