A Collection of Dreams about the Future of Technology Education: A Festschrift in Honour of Marc J. de Vries - Paperback

by John R. Dakers (Volume Editor)

Aside from celebrating the work of Marc J. de Vries, this book also highlights the need for further work, effort, and energy to improve learning about technology. It is a collection of essays written by experts from the philosophy of technology and education. They have written about their perspectives on how a future education about technology must better relate to the technologically textured world we now inhabit: a world in which the continuing exponential evolution of technology is affecting virtually every aspect of our lives. This book serves as a clarion call to all those responsible for school-based education.

Contributors are: Piet Ankiewicz, Frank Banks, Moshe Barak, Hilda Ruth Beaumont, Dennis Cheek, Osnat Dagan, John R. Dakers, Wendy Dakers, Marc J. de Vries, Christian Detweiler, Andrew Doyle, Wendy Fox-Turnbull, Lena Gumaelius, Jonas Hallström, Alison Hardy, Eva Hartell, Pasi Ikonen, Henk Jochemsen, Alister Jones, Hanna Kauppinen, Steve Keirl, Richard Kimbell, Dov Kipperman, Roel Kuiper, Mike Martin, David Mioduser, Carl Mitcham, Sonja Niiranen, Charlotta Nordlöf, Aki Rasinen, Philip A. Reed, Timo Rissanen, John M. Ritz, Marion Rutland, Elwin Savelsbergh, Alice Schut, David Spendlove, Kay Stables, Kendall N. Starkweather, Maarten van der Sanden, Gerald van Dijk, and Maarten J. Verkerk.

Author Biography

John R. Dakers is an independent researcher and author working at the crossroads of philosophy and education. He has published monographs, edited collections and journal articles. His last book is entitled A Nomadic Pedagogy about Technology: Teaching the Ongoing Process of Becoming Ethnotechnologically Literate (Brill 2023).