Technology Education in School and Industry: Emerging Didactics for Human Resource Development

Official Opening and Welcome.- 1. Advanced Technology and Technology Education.- Industry productivity improvement techniques for education: A reverse technology transfer?.- Learning through apprenticeship.- New didactical concepts through the application of Flexible Learning Systems.- 2. Aspects of Identifying Key Competencies.- Identifying key competencies in specific occupational sectors for incorporation into vocational training programmes.- Inclusion of students with significant learning difficulties.- Didactical concepts for developing key qualifications.- 3. Advanced Technology Self-Learning Tools.- The DNA of advanced educational technology.- "Working with projects" stimulates basal aptitudes.- Technological literacy and humanization.- 4. Didactical Concepts for Advanced Technology.- Thought, language, and technology in school industry link projects.- Technology education: The rural context factor.- Implications of cognitive science for technological problem solving.- 5. Principles of Engineering Courses and Apprenticeship Entry Requirements.- Learning in technical work systems - industrial training models.- Principles of Engineering course: school and industrial collaboration.- Creativity at work: implications for education about work.- 6. Design Methodology and Theory-Practice Links.- Interrelations between design education, design practice, design research, design knowledge.- The elements of technology for education.- Design methodological analyses as a tool for learning about technological developments in industrial settings.- 7. Advanced Technology and Integrative Situations.- The Goals of Mathematical Olympiad and Changing Society in Transition to the Market Economy.- A model for integrated mathematics, science and technology education staff development.- The role of universities in the transition to a market economy and in regional development.- Using advanced technology to enhance teaching, learning and assessment.- Final Reports of the Working Groups.- Collaboration between educational institutions and the world of work: future directions.- Characteristics of advanced educational technology.- Disciplinary, interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional perspectives.- List of Participants.