Dispositions as Explicit Learning Goals for Engineering and Technology Education
Patricia J. Williams, Patricia J. Williams · SensePublishers eBooks · 2011
Researchers and practitioners in engineering and technology education have called for a range of capabilities to be developed through education as a means of preparing students for life after school in the third millennium. There is nothing new about this; technology education has always addressed personal and professional goals, although at times in quite an instrumental kind of way. Both career awareness and skill development have been justified as providing the basis for a productive and satisfying role in society. More recently, the recognition that the practical environment of engineering, design and technology education is conducive to the development of a range of cognitive skills (as well as manipulative skills) has broadened its goals. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.