Towards a technological education

Authors

  • Antoni Hernández-Fernández Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Keywords:

filosofia de la tecnologia, control social, pseudotecnologies, ciberassetjament, addicció a les pantalles.

Abstract

The author postulates the need for a technological education that includes the philosophy of technology and the consideration of the ethics of technology at the compulsory secondary education level, along the line of Bungean thinking, going beyond the technical contents of the subject. Four topics are discussed here, providing general references for a deeper understanding of this question: technology and social control, pseudosciences and pseudotechnologies in education, cyberbullying and screen addiction. This paper concludes by encouraging teachers to use their academic freedom to properly educate their students until such time as these topics come to be included in the official technology curricula, and to suitably prepare themselves with the aim of meeting the challenge of technological education in the 21st century.

Keywords: philosophy of technology, social control, pseudotechnologies, cyberbullying, screen addiction.

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Author Biography

Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Barcelona Science and Engineering Education Research Group (BCN-SEER), LARCA Research Group, Institut de Ciències de l’Educació, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Hernández-Fernández, A. (2020). Towards a technological education. Revista De Tecnologia, (8), 14–22. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RTEC/article/view/148401

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No. 8 (2020)

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