Teaching Design and Technology

Design and technology is crucial to the national economy and to individual employment prospects. John Eggleston shows how this area of work has come to occupy a new and central place in the school curriculum, and highlights the higher status and a new identity now accorded to technology. He explores this new identity, its origins, its manifestations in classroom practice, and its possible futures. He pays particular attention to its role in the national curriculum, to assessment, to gender and race issues, and to management, and includes two entirely new chapters on the training of design and technology teachers and on design and technology in classroom practice.
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This best-selling book has been fully revised in the light of the new National Curriculum for Design and Technology which took effect in 2000 and will continue to be essential reading for all trainee and practising teachers of design and technology.

John Eggleston is Professor of Education at Warwick University and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University and the University of Central England. He was founding editor of Design and Technology Teaching, is Vice Chair of the Design and Technology Association, Chair of the Young Electronic Design Awards and was Director of the Schools Council Project on Design and Technology.