The Aims and Objectives
of a Technology Curriculum

As a society we can no longer afford the view that "doing" subjects, as opposed to "knowing" subjects, are the lesser cousins of the educational system, and are suitable for students who are dull in all brainwork. We all live in a technological society and we must all be educated for it. It is essential to render the young competent in the tools of the new technology. Such tools can be used in music (electronic keyboards) or English (word processors), and indeed it is difficult to fins a subject where they could not be used. In this way, technology pervades the curriculum; and the curriculum as a whole can contribute to our understanding of our technological society. We must look to a liberal education to empower the individual to become morally responsible, socially significant and aesthetically aware. For this, education must include some study of technology and the workings of the technological society - industrially, commercially and politically.

1. To prepare students, morally and politically, for understanding and being critically aware of the social issues of technology.
   
2. To involve students in learning how to employ technological devices.
   
3. To include an involvement in and understanding of the areas of technology that can be related to designing and making.
   

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Objectives

Key Stages 3 and 4 (Ages 11-16)

During Key Stages 3 and 4 teachers of the subject should seek to achieve the following objectives:

1. Address progressively more complex and sophisticated technological problems
   
2. Provide students with opportunities to work both individually and as members of a team
   
3. Encourage students to identify technological needs
   
4. Provide students with opportunities to draw on knowledge gained in other subject areas
   
5. Involve students in producing a range of outcomes in a range of materials
   
6. Stimulate the development of oral, written and graphical communication skills
   
7. Stimulate the development of a range of making skills
   
8. Encourage the acquisition of a body of knowledge applicable to solving practical/ technological problems
   
9. Foster attitudes of curiosity, enquiry, initiative, ingenuity, resourcefulness and discrimination
   
10. Foster awareness, understanding and expertise in those areas of creative thinking which can be expressed through the processes of designing and making
    
11. Foster technological awareness by encouraging students to view technological development in its social, historical and economic context rather than as an end in itself
    
12. Foster attitudes of cooperation and social responsibility, and develop abilities to enhance the quality of the environment
    
13. Stimulate the exercising of value judgements of an aesthetic, technical, economic and moral nature
    

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