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Technology -- Study and teaching

Here are entered works dealing specifically with methods of instruction in technology. General works on education in technology are entered under Technical education.

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• digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science and Technology Studies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2019), ed. by Janet Vertesi and David Ribes (PDF files and multimedia with commentary at digitalsts.net)
• From Analysis to Action: Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (1996), by Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Public Libraries and STEM: A National Conference on Current Trends and Future Directions, August 20-22, 2015, Denver, Colorado (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Public Libraries and STEM: A National Conference on Current Trends and Future Directions, August 20-22, 2015, Denver, Colorado (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Discover Tech Hands-On Engineering Activities: Playful Building (ca. 2015), by Keliann LaConte, Andrew Shaner, Stephanie Shipp, and Yolanda Ballard (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• The Amos Gager Throop Collection: A Guide to the Papers in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology and the Chicago Historical Society (1990), ed. by Shelley Erwin and Carol H. Bugé, contrib. by Judith R. Goodstein (PDF at Caltech)

• Interdisciplinary Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (1987), by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (full serial archives)

• Impact of a Department of Education on Federal Science and Technology Activities (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, contrib. by Charles Vincent Kidd
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Interdisciplinary Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (1987), by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Engineering Undergraduate Education (1986), by National Research Council Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Engineering Education and Practice in the United States: Foundations of Our Techno-Economic Future (1985), by National Research Council Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Engineering in Society (1985), by National Research Council Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers (1995), by Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (Washington: National Academies Press, c2007), by Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (U.S.) (multiple formats with commentary at NAP)
• Educating Scientists and Engineers: Grade School to Grad School (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Benchmarks for Science Literacy, by Project 2061 (HTML at project2061.org)
• An Assessment of the National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Centers Program, by Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.) (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Education of Architects and Engineers for Careers in Facility Design and Construction (1995), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)
• From Analysis to Action: Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (1996), by Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Journal of Engineering Education (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (full serial archives)

• A First Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering, by Louis L. Scharf, contrib. by Richard T. Behrens (PDF and EPUB at cnx.org)

• Education for the Manufacturing World of the Future (1985), by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology (1995), by Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Research and Development (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Fireside University: For Home Circle Study and Entertainment (Chicago: Union Publishing House, c1898), by John McGovern (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Useful Arts, Considered in Connexion with the Applications of Science (2 volumes; Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840), by Jacob Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Next Hundred Years: The Unfinished Business of Science (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, c1936), by C. C. Furnas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations (electronic edition of Wiley reference) (searchable HTML at wiley.com)

• Citation Indexing: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities, by Eugene Garfield (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations (electronic edition of Wiley reference) (searchable HTML at wiley.com)

• Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives (1988), ed. by Janet H. Muroyama and H. Guyford Stever (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Concise Chemical and Technical Dictionary (second enlarged edition; New York: Chemical Pub. Co., 1962), ed. by H. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of the Useful Arts (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby and Co., 1855), by Thomas Antisell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hand-Book of the Useful Arts: Including Agriculture, Architecture, Domestic Economy, Engineering, Machinery, Manufactures, Mining, Photogenic and Telegraphic Art: Being an Exposition of Their Principles and Practice and a Compend of American and European Invention (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v3; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Thomas Antisell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering and the Mechanical Arts (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), ed. by Park Benjamin
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Free: The Future of a Radical Price (read by the author in its entirety; 2009), by Chris Anderson (zipped audio files at Wired; 280 MB)

• A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for W. Owen, 1763-1764)
  • Volume I (A-C): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (D-K): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (L-Q): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (R-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (R-Z): multiple formats at Google

• Changing the Cogs: Activists and the Politics of Technology (Canberra: Friends of the Earth, 1979), by Brian Martin (PDF with rotated pages and commentary in Australia)

• Makers (2009), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)

• Ghana: Changing Values, Changing Technologies (Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, II; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2000), ed. by Helen Lauer (PDF at crvp.org)

• The Scientific Revolution Revisited (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), by Mikuláš Teich (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Federal Scientific and Technical Information in an Electronic Age: Opportunities and Challenges (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• The Big Data Agenda: Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies (London: University of Westminster Press, 2018), by Annika Richterich
  • multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press
  • HTML at Project MUSE
• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Invention and Technology (partial serial archives)
• Annals of the University of Oradea: Fascicle of Management and Technological Engineering (issues online 2005-) (partial serial archives)
• Memoirs of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University (partial serial archives)
• Popular Science (partial serial archives)
• New Scientist (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards (full serial archives)
• RSA Journal (partial serial archives)
• Science and Invention, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (full serial archives)
• Scientific American (partial serial archives)
• The English Mechanic and World of Science (partial serial archives)
• Archives of Useful Knowledge, ed. by James Mease (full serial archives)
• The Electrical Experimenter, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (partial serial archives)
• Mechanics' Magazine (US magazine, 1833-1837) (partial serial archives)
• Popular Mechanics (partial serial archives)
• Scientific American Supplement (partial serial archives)
• Zeitschrift für Technische Physik (partial serial archives)
• Modern Electrics (partial serial archives)
• The Manufacturer and Builder (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.