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Technology Education: An International History

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Handbook of Technology Education

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Major themes running trough the history of technology education are: moving from craft to technology education, dealing with the vocational-general education dichotomy, the relation with science education in STS and STEM, the emergence of concept learning in technology education and the contribution of technology education to the 21st Century skills.

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de Vries, M.J. (2017). Technology Education: An International History. In: de Vries, M. (eds) Handbook of Technology Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38889-2_8-1

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