Make the future work: appropriate technology - a teachers' guide
This is designed to support teachers in their delivery of the wider dimensions of design and technology. It emphasizes the importance of appropriate solutions to today's technology problems and gives examples of technology from other cultures alongside complementary examples of classroom activities.
It should prove useful to all design and technology teachers wanting to tackle global issues, sustainable development and alternative economic approaches for the future. The contributors relate these subjects directly to classroom experiences.
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