New Frontiers in Technological Literacy Breaking with the Past [Hardcover]

This book attempts to rethink the concept of technological literacy in a modern context, not only in terms of a subject area taught in schools, but also as an important general concept that all citizens should engage with. As this book will illustrate, the concept of technological literacy has no universally agreed definition.Foreward; Carl Mitcham Introduction: Breaking with the Past; John R. Dakers 1.Technological Literacy as a Creative Process of Becoming Other; John R. Dakers 2.Postliterate Machineries; Stephen Petrina 3.Technology and Technology Education: Perspectives from a young person; Molly Watson 4.Technological Literacy and Digital Democracy: a relationship grounded in Technology Education; P. John Williams 5.Re-Envisioning Our Knowledge Tradition: From Gender-Blind to Gender Aware; Mary Kirk 6.Eco-technological Literacy for Resiliency; Leo Elshof 7.A Chinese Perspective on Technological Literacy; Nan Wang 8.Enabling both reflection and action: a challenge facing technology education; David Barlex 9.From CyberEducation to CyberActivism: Can CyberLiteracy Transform the Public Sphere?; Andoni Alonso 10.Situating technological literacy in the workplace; Jamie Wallace and Cathrine Hasse 11.Genetic literacy: Scientific input as a precondition for personal judgment?; Silja Samerski

The beginning of our twenty-first century is marked by many breaks that affect our social, economic, cultural, and political organizations. The globalization of trade and the global development of information networks have drastically change our relationships with multiple technologies. Increasingly indispensable in our daily actions, they generate opposing feelings from the most basic rejection to unconditional adherence. This book, by the richness of contributions from leading international experts, lays the foundation of an appropriate place for technology education in all our educational systems. Jacques Ginestie, Director, ESPE Aix-Marseille, Aix-Marseille Universit?,lr