Viewpoints of Higher Education Teachers about Technologies

Autor/inn/en	Bouras, Adel; Albe, Virginie
Titel	Viewpoints of Higher Education Teachers about Technologies
Quelle	In: International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 18 (2008) 3, S.285-305 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0957-7572
DOI	10.1007/s10798-007-9027-3
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Literacy; Sciences; Technology; Technological Literacy; Teaching Methods; Technology Education; Higher Education; Discourse Analysis; Questionnaires; Interviews; College Faculty + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Science; Wissenschaft; Technologie; Technisches Wissen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Diskursanalyse; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fakultät
Abstract	In the context of recent debates on technological literacy, a renewed research effort has focused on the nature of technologies. The aim of this work, which considers "epistemological knowledge" as viewpoints which spring into gear in a given situation, is to use questionnaires and interviews to identify the opinions of teachers in a training institute for master technicians in Tunisia on technologies. The objective was to try and define how these teachers perceive the relations between sciences, technologies and societies and how social and cultural aspects affect their discourse on technologies. The results of the questionnaires and the analysis of their discourses indicate that teachers essentially perceive technology as an applied science for which the ultimate purpose is progress and consumption. The relations identified by teachers between technologies, sciences and societies, reveal dichotomies between science and technology both with respect to the status teachers attribute to knowledge and to their views on its teaching. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10