Tools for change

The educational landscape in secondary schools is set to change. We have already embarked on a series of events that have significant implications for design & technology and the subject community – including new programmes of study, new qualifications, the STEM agenda and a school building and refurbishment programme that will affect every secondary design & technology department over the next few years.

Nuffield Design & Technology is committed to helping teachers respond positively and effectively to these changes and has embarked on this process by commissioning a range of highly experienced educators to write about their areas of expertise in articles that are designed to act as tools for change. The aim is to help teachers ensure that design & technology can make its full contribution in a reconfigured curriculum.

There are twelve articles organised into three themes. The articles are available free of charge below as a complete set (see the PDF document Tools for Change), or individually as free to download PDF's.

Tools for change
Full article (13.8 MB)

Education for sustainability (Three articles)
Sustainability and D&T Education (1.1 MB) (James Pitt)
Electronics (almost) without batteries (0.8 MB) (Torben Steeg)
Transport and global warning (726 KB) (David Barlex)

Cross curricularity (Four articles)
Links between food technology and science (1.8 MB) (Marion Rutland)
STEM (404 KB) (David Barlex)
Getting it to add up (699 KB) (Nick Givens)
The start of something BIG (3.8 MB) (David Barlex)

Modernising design & technology (Five articles)
Engaging with new technologies (390 KB) (David Barlex)
Modernising the justifications for D&T (495 KB) (David Barlex)
Modernising the implementation of D&T (421 KB) (David Barlex)
Embedded control: Spimes, Fabs & the Future of Designing and Making (0.9 MB) (Torben Steeg)
Modernising the D&T environment (1.2 MB) (Jon Parker)