Issues in Design Education
Issues in Design Education comes from the Art and Design Education series and was published in 1990 by Longman. It consists of a series of essays written by design and technology education specialists, each one considering an aspect of the technology curriculum. The purposes of this volume were: • To identify the issues…
Control Systems
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the B units called ‘Breathing and circulation’ and ‘Food and digestion’, also from the S unit ‘Circuits’. This D unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a Further Science course and built on the content of the S units…
Electronics
This Nuffield Working with Science unit aimed to enable students to design circuits to meet specific needs. The plan was also to help students to realise the range of electronics problems which they can solve by taking a systems approach. Guidance for teachers and technicians appears in Teachers’ Notes F. This unit was…
Special Study: Food Science
This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Study enabled students to see something of the scope of the field of food science, and to appreciate its dependence upon chemical principles. The objectives were: • to show the function and place of food in the human organism. • to show food as a dynamic macromolecular system with…
Special Study: Metallurgy
This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Study enabled students to see something of the scope of the field of metallurgy, and to appreciate its dependence upon chemical principles. The objectives were to: • consider the relationships between the physical and chemical properties of metallic materials and their uses and economics. •…