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Design & Technology evolved in the school curriculum from the mid 1960s. By the 1980s it had become mainstream for the British government to fund research exploring what learners could do when challenged with design & technology tasks. The authors
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		    Science & Technology Education Library VOLUME 34
 
 SERIES EDITOR William W. Cobern, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Tobin, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA EDITORIAL BOARD Henry Brown-Acquay, University College of Education of Winneba, Ghana Chin-Chung, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan Mariona Espinet, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Gurol Irzik, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Olugbemiro Jegede, The Open University, Hong Kong Reuven Lazarowitz, Technion, Haifa, Israel Lilia Reyes Herrera, Universidad Autónoma de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia Marrisa Rollnick, College of Science, Johannesburg, South Africa Svein Sjøberg, University of Oslo, Norway Hsiao-lin Tuan, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan SCOPE The book series Science & Technology Education Library provides a publication forum for scholarship in science and technology education. It aims to publish innovative books which are at the forefront of the field. Monographs as well as collections of papers will be published.
 
 The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
 
 Researching Design Learning Issues and Findings from Two Decades of Research and Development
 
 By
 
 RICHARD KIMBELL Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
 
 and
 
 KAY STABLES Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
 
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 ISBN 978-1-4020-5114-2 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-5115-9 (e-book)
 
 Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com
 
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 All Rights Reserved © 2007 Springer. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.
 
 To Harriet, Tony and the families We promise not to write another one. Not for a while anyway.
 
 Contents
 
 Dedication
 
 v
 
 Foreword
 
 ix
 
 Preface
 
 xi
 
 Acknowledgements
 
 INTRODUCTION
 
 xiii
 
 1
 
 PART ONE: OUR PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION
 
 11
 
 Chapter 1 Capability: A Philosophical Position
 
 13
 
 Chapter 2 Learning and Teaching: A Philosophical Position
 
 29
 
 Chapter 3 Assessment: A Philosophical Position
 
 45
 
 Chapter 4 Research: A Philosophical Position
 
 57
 
 viii
 
 Contents
 
 PART TWO: THE PROJECTS
 
 65
 
 Chapter 5 APU Design & Technology
 
 67
 
 Chapter 6 Further Performance Assessment
 
 99
 
 Chapter 7 Continuing Fundamental Research
 
 139
 
 Chapter 8 Public Policy Research
 
 153
 
 Chapter 9 Evaluating Curricular Initiatives
 
 183
 
 PART THREE: EMERGING ISSUES AND UNDERSTANDINGS
 
 215
 
 Chapter 10
 
 Processes, Activities and Tasks
 
 217
 
 Chapter 11
 
 Learning and Teaching
 
 231
 
 Chapter 12
 
 Assessing Performance
 
 245
 
 Chapter 13
 
 Learner Differences
 
 269
 
 Chapter 14
 
 Research Methodology
 
 287		
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