Technology Education: Prospectus for Curriculum Change

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1992

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Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association
Virginia Tech. Digital Library and Archives

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Starr (1988) documents the United States as being in an ever weakening global position. For example, he reports on the demand for an increasingly educated and technical work force and contrasts this with the supply of high school graduates ill equipped for either college or the work force. Many Americans find today's rapidly changing world a bewildering and alien place to live and to work as they intentionally, or unintentionally, recoil from the technical means upon which they must rely and try to cope and adapt (Bensen, 1991).

This editorial examines how the United States is failing in its attempt to educate and professionally prepare our youth. The critique is followed with a proposed technology education teacher preparation curriculum that attempts to reflect today's global, technological society.

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Journal of Technology Education 4(1): (Fall 1992)