The Impact of Technology Education

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The increasing mechanization of our lives calls for the acquisition of profound knowledge about technological implications and the development of technological literacy from an early age. Therefore, this volume aims at giving an insight into the current research on technology education. It investigates topics such as technological self-efficacy, vocational interest, gender role orientation or the digital transformation and their impact on today’s technology education from several international perspectives.
The increasing use of technology in our lives requires not only the qualification of young professionals through vocational training in order to maintain innovation and technical and societal progress, but also a technical education “for everyone”, so as to cope with these environments and to become a society with technology literacy. A lack of technology activities may not only result in a “technology illiteracy”, thus making a responsible participation in social life more difficult, but also has an impact on identity development. Against this background, technology education is getting important and has an impact on various aspects of the personality, e.g. skills, knowledge and interest in technology, which initiate lifelong learning.
With the combination of articles, the editors of Technology Education Vol. III want to give an insight into international approaches of technology education and its impact. Nine authors, respectively teams of authors from various countries present their educational setting and the impact it has for the personality development in technology.

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Marc J. de Vries
de Vries, Marc J. (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands): Marc de Vries is Professor at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the Delft University of Technology of the Netherlands. His main interest is to connect reflections on technology (in the philosophy of technology) and teaching about technology (technology, design and engineering education).

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primary school self-efficacy design tasks nursery school K-12 STEM United States technology literacy Tinkering competences digitalised world general technical education vocational technical education evaluation affinity girls

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The Impact of Technology Education offers a comprehensive compilation of technology education studies from primarily German-speaking European countries, which is very much needed.
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