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The personal response to designing and making: investigating PGCE students' feelings as they move through a designing and making assignment
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posted on 2007-06-07, 08:47 authored by David BarlexThe purpose of the study reported in this paper was to
investigate the way in which feelings of trainee teachers
on a one year post graduate certificate of education
(PGCE) initial teacher education (ITE) design and
technology (D&T) course changed as they moved
through a designing and making assignment.
This paper is in four parts. The introduction presents a
brief overview of the literature reporting pupils’
emotional response to the secondary school curriculum
in science and attitudes toward technology. Second, it
describes a pilot study in which a cohort of secondary
design and technology PGCE trainee teachers were
required to record their feelings in response to a
designing and making assignment. Third, the paper
presents a preliminary analysis of the data, commenting
in some depth on the response of four purposefully
sampled trainees. Finally, it considers the possibility of
this approach being used with pupils in schools.
History
School
- Design
Research Unit
- D&T Association Conference Series
Publisher
© DATAPublication date
2006Notes
This is a conference paper.Language
- en