CONTENTS

ties has two categories of articles--departments and features, as listed and explained below.

Features (approximately 2000 words, with color or black & white prints, or slides)

ties Features deal with topics of interest to teachers and students of technology and related subjects. ties' definition of technology education assumes the following values:

• A design and problem-solving approach to classroom activity;
• Real world or student-based problems;
• Hands-on learning using tools and materials;
• Development of higher order thinking skills;
• The value of transferable models in helping students construct an understanding of the technological world;
• The nature of resources and their role in designing technological solutions;
• Technology as the extension of human capabilities;
• Technology as a means of achieving human needs and wants;
• Personal, social and environmental impacts of technology;
• Historical development and cultural context of technology;
• Integrating nature of technology education;
• Abstract learning made concrete through application;
• Development of technological capability;
• The interdependence of materials, energy, control and communication, with human beings and their tools and machines in any technological event;
• The systematic nature of technological activities and products, characterized by inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback.

Articles used as features in ties take many forms. They may consist of an explanation of a product, system, technique, strategy or situation; an essay discussing a theory, pointing out relationships, or documenting an activity; or a historical perspective or projection of a possible future situation.

Because technology pervades virtually all of modern life, many contexts for the technological subject under discussion will be appropriate (industry, the arts, the home, recreation, the social sciences, medicine, agriculture) within the boundaries of editorial discretion. The subject may be technological or educational, but should be related to education and be clearly useful to teachers.