Culturally Responsive Pedagogy - Keynote
An exciting conference for Teachers of Design and Technology in New Zealand, Wellington, 7th to 9th Oct 2013.
Conference Title: Connect - putting the pieces together
Convenor: TRCC.
technacy
Seminal Paper - Technacy - Prospect Journal 1996
This invited paper in Prospect, UNESCOs international research journal on comparative education, was published as the first presentation of technacy theory in 10 languages, distributed to 30,000 copies.
Outstanding Research by Dr Parnell in Technacy, Sustainability and Culture.
This page lists publications written or co-written by Dr. Matthew Parnell since 1980. Highlighted titles can be downloaded as PDF documents
Click here for an array of outstanding papers and presentations by Dr Parnell in Technacy, Sustainablity, Culture and Practice.
Design Means - Talk at Goldsmiths College
Understanding the ‘lores’ of the made world through cross-cultural insight
By Kurt Seemann
Invited Guest speaker to the Design Means talks at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Monday 23rd April 2012, 5pm to 6pm.
Cross cultural technacy research
This internationally peer reviewed book chapter discussed the link between culture, technology and values. Publisher is UNESCO, Springer.
Click here: Technacy Chapter in Springer
Or here for preprint copy.
Purpose and Context Parameters
A competent education in technology and design, thoroughly examines and declares the boundary of a project's scope. Credible Design and Technology projects experiment with/or model ideas to discover and simulate potential solutions that 'should' work in the intended context. It places due weight on determining contextual risk and key indicators or drivers that need to be accommodated for a technology development to claim success or undertake an appropriate evaluation.
Tool Systems - Digital/Technical Devices
All technological knowledge includes the ability to understand the design features, properties and performance limits of simple, powered and complex tools, instruments, machinery and devices.
Materials - Tree/Binary Code
Common to all technological knowledge is the ability to understand the properties and sustainability of the material resources we grow, shape, consume, and transform. A developed knowledge of materials facilitates good choices in design. Such knowledge helps guide what tools or fixture/assembly methods are required to assure an applied idea works in its intended context.
The Tree-with-Binary-code icon, reminds us that
Technacy Genre/Technology Type
All types or 'forms' of technological knowledge include a logical combination of materials, tools, and agency. We refer to these aspects of technologies as the minimum elements of their form. When these 'elements' are combined (with one class of material involved) and applied to a specific purpose and context, a technacy genre may be identified.
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