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Designed for citizenship? Innovation, technology and social reponsibility
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posted on 2007-03-15, 12:11 authored by Nigel ZankerDesign is concerned with innovation. It is a field of study in which designers,
from their imagination, create two- or three-dimensional models of products
that they think people want or need. Technology is concerned with the use of
tools, materials and processes. It is also a field of study in which
technologists or industrialists bring products into working reality from
designers’ imagination. These products may be objects, systems or
environments. Both these fields of study have, therefore, become one
subject, Design and Technology, in our school curriculum. It is through this
subject that pupils are taught how to design and to make products.
Designers and technologists have become much more aware in recent
decades of the social and environmental aspects associated with the
designing, making, use and disposal of products. There is now an increased
social responsibility - shared by consumers, designers and politicians - not to
destroy life and the environment in the process. Similarly, in schools,
teachers of Design and Technology foster an awareness of social
responsibility through their students’ designing and making. It is this that
forms the basis of the link between the school subjects of Citizenship and
Design and Technology.
This chapter explores this link by reviewing the literature and resources
currently available to Design and Technology teachers. It proposes some
strategies, through illustrative examples, for teachers to develop their
students’ active citizenship skills of participation and responsible action
through designing and making.
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ZANKER, N., 2006. Designed for citizenship? Innovation, technology and social reponsibility. IN: Breslin, T. and Dufour, B. (eds), Developing Citizens: A Comprehensive Introduction to Effective Citizenship Education in the Secondary School. London: Hodder MurrayPublisher
© Hodder MurrayPublication date
2006ISBN
0340926821Language
- en