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Epistemological treatment of design in technology education

Seery, Niall; Phelan, Joseph; Buckley, Jeffrey; Canty, Donal (Springer, 2022-10-18)

Design as a construct has multiple meanings depending on context, function, and agenda. This paper proposes to set out functions of design as it manifests in the context of technological activity for the purposes of ...
The impact of country of schooling and gender on secondary students' conceptions of and interest in becoming an engineer in Ireland, Kenya and Sweden.

Buckley, Jeffrey; Gumaelius, Lena; Nyangweso, Mercy; Hyland, Tómas; Seery, Niall; Pears, Arnold (Springer, 2023-04-13)

Background Given the disparities in gender representation, efforts are needed to make engineering education more inclusive and attractive to young people. It is important that those entering engineering education are ...