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Philosophy for D&T Teachers?

Philosophy for D&T Teachers?. Matt McLain m.n.mclain@ljmu.ac.uk Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education (Design and Technology) Liverpool John Moores University. Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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Philosophy for D&T Teachers?

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  1. Philosophy for D&T Teachers? Matt McLain m.n.mclain@ljmu.ac.uk Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education (Design and Technology) Liverpool John Moores University

  2. Ludwig Wittgenstein “… what is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., and if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life…”

  3. Why Philosophy of D&T? • Expert Panel (DFE, 2011) -“… weaker epistemological roots”? • Public perceptions of D&T • What are the bodies of knowledge in D&T? • holistic and overlapping • embedded in ACTION • NC 2014 – design, make, evaluate, technical knowledge

  4. Some challenges for D&T • Western philosophy • Division of mind and body / thought and action • “the desire for something more sustainable that decomposing materials…” (Sennett, 2008: 124) • Academic/vocational ‘divide’ • Our own propensity for getting stuff done and solving problems!

  5. John Dewey “The point of philosophy is not make theory practical, the point is to make practice intelligent…” “… natural course of development… always sets out with situations which involve learning by doing." (Dewey, 1916, 2001: 192)

  6. What is unique about D&T? Practical and creative Products, systems and services Designing (and making) “… innovative, functional, appealing products…” NC Programme of Study 2014

  7. Larry Hickman “Technology in its most robust sense... Involves the invention, development, and cognitivedevelopment tool and other artifacts, brought to bear on raw materials and intermediate stock parts, with a view to the resolution of perceived problems.” 

  8. W Brian Arthur D&T Technology is… • Complex and has multiple meanings/layers • Combination and Structure – technology building on technology (i.e. advances) • Observing and harnessing phenomena • Science helps us understand, but technological activity comes first needs problems wants

  9. Lev Vygotsky Luria, A. R., & Vygotsky, L. S. (1930/1993). Studies on the history of behavior: ape, primitive, and child. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. “technology and social organization... are the basic factors in the development of primitive man” (Vygotsky & Luria, 1993)

  10. Socio-technological Human Activity Where does D&T fit? The Curriculum Why?

  11. Philosophy for D&T Teachers? Matt McLain m.n.mclain@ljmu.ac.uk Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education (Design and Technology) Liverpool John Moores University

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