Tom Corker is currently Head of Technology at Felixstowe School and Lead Technology Teacher for Unity Schools Partnership. Tom has experience leading and supporting schools in design & technology education in the East of England and has previously carried out consultancy work for the Design & Technology Association and BBC Bitesize. Design & technology is […]
Author: Alison Hardy
Alison is a university lecturer, writer, researcher and podcaster. Alison's work centres on design and technology education. She has edited Learning to Teach Design and Technology and contributed to Mentoring Design and Technology Teachers and Design Epistemology and Curriculum Planning.
Why do we emphasise object-based learning through the use of handling collections at Goldsmiths?
Alice Hellard, Goldsmiths University of London At Goldsmiths the major curriculum studies assignment during the D&T PGCE programme is focused on active and object-based learning. We live in a period in which arguments for knowledge-based learning and conventional ‘academic’ teaching and learning are ever more influential in policy and curriculum agendas (Gibb, 2021), which can […]
I might be wrong …
I might be wrong, but did I think more about me than them ….?
Enhancing D&T teacher education
Introducing a new programme to run alongside your D&T teacher education course Matt McLain and Alison Hardy have a new 6 session programme beginning in October 2021 aimed at student D&T teachers . The programme works alongside the Learning to Teach Design and Technology textbook, with each session focusing on a different aspect of teaching D&T. The programme is […]
Why don’t we get on?
There’s a myriad of reasons why mentor/ student teacher relationships breakdown. But a fundamental reasons might be that you just don’t agree on why you teach D&T.