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Learn Bamboo from Bamboo: A Kinaesthetic Communication Approach to Curating Cultures, Crafts, and Construction for Higher Education
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Chamila Subasinghe – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: Beyond symptomatic communication barriers between designers and communities, glocal resiliency building (GRB) by intercultural groups often challenges traditional service-learning trajectories. Without ambitious performance hurdles, two higher education institutions from Australia and Thailand built rapport via their shared love for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Handicrafts, Woodworking
Computation and Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Wood Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Integration
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Riggio, Mariapaola; Cheng, Nancy Yen-wen – Education Sciences, 2021
Examining an interdisciplinary university course for architecture, wood science, and engineering students, this paper studies how the students' ability to master digital workflows influenced their success in learning collaborative design skills. It highlights potential challenges and opportunities posed by the introduction of new digital tools to…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Architectural Education, Engineering Education, Construction (Process)
The Introduction of a Thin-Bending Wood Horn Speaker as Multipurpose Teaching Material in Japanese Junior High School Technology Classes
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Jung, Kiho; Otaka, Yuki – World Journal of Education, 2019
As a case study of the introduction of efficient and effective teaching materials and methods that enhance students' technological literacy in different areas despite the relative lack of classroom hours devoted to technology education in Japanese junior high schools, a front-loaded horn speaker system was proposed as a component of multipurpose…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Instructional Materials, Junior High School Students, Technology Education
Delivering Technological Literacy to a Class for Elementary School Pre-Service Teachers in South Korea
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Kwon, Hyuksoo – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2017
This study was conducted with the aim of creating a new introductory course emphasizing the development of technological literacy for elementary school pre-service teachers. This study also aimed to investigate elementary school pre-service teachers' attitudinal transition toward elementary school technology education (ESTE) and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Introductory Courses, Technological Literacy, Elementary School Teachers
Creative Entrepreneurial Applications in the Wood Industries: An Appalachian Case Study
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Hackbert, Peter H.; Glotzback, Tim; Mahoney, Gary – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
This paper illustrates three academic units collaborative process to solve a design problem in the development of new wood products for the Historic Boone Tavern Hotel, Berea, Kentucky. The Boone Tavern Hotel chronology and renovation needs after 99 years are summarized. The Berea College Student Crafts Program is then described and the need for a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Creative Activities, Entrepreneurship, Woodworking
Design Education and the Teaching of Woodwork in Secondary Schools.
Nherera, Charles M. – 1989
In an attempt to review and, if necessary, update the curriculum, a study investigated the prevalence of problem-solving and design approaches in the teaching of woodworking courses in secondary schools in Zimbabwe. Woodworking classes in forms one and three were studied in an urban secondary school where woodworking is taught up to form four and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Course Content, Design, Developing Nations