Achieving Education for Technological Capability in Scotland

Enterprising education in Scotland: is education for work enough?

Although there have never been prescribed curriculum directives for enterprise education in Scotland, the Scottish government has provided some documents to support and consolidate good practice and provide frameworks for developing programs throughout the school curriculum. The most recent of these is Determined to succeed: a review of enterprise in education (SEED 2002). The government clearl...

Innovation and Technological Capability in Indonesia

Presenting a Model for Evaluating Technological Innovation Capability for Attaining Turbocharge Technology

Recent evolutions in World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international trading agreements have made industries all around the world face a new era of intense global competition. Simultaneously with increased competitive pressure, permanent development and innovation comprise building blocks of firm excellence. In a dynamic environment, failure to innovate ends up with business stagnation a...

Extending the technological capability of turning operation

The main goal of this paper is to compensate the elastic deformations of the technological system in order to achieve maximum cross sectional accuracy and productivity of turning operation with minimum cost. This study was based on developing of mechanical adaptive system (MAS) for accuracy control by dynamic adjustment of the tool position during processing. The dynamic characteristic of compo...

Teacher Socialization in Technological Education

In a recent technological education teacher development study, two elements of teacher socialization–the process of formally preparing to become a teacher (Ginsburg, 1988, p.1)–were singled out for review. First, the study set out to examine the influences on teacher socialization prior to formal teacher education. Second, the impact of pre-service teacher education itself, was explored. The so...