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This chapter documents the principal curriculum developments in Technology Education for the Australian primary school sector over the past two decades. For reasons of space, scope and data availability, it is necessarily broad in its approach.
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Keirl, S. (2011). Caught in the Currents - the Shaping of Primary Technology Education in Australia. In: Benson, C., Lunt, J. (eds) International Handbook of Primary Technology Education. International Technology Education Studies, vol 7. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-546-8_6
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