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Educators’ Resistance To The Technology And Engineering Education Transition, Kenneth L. Rigler Ph.D.
Educators’ Resistance To The Technology And Engineering Education Transition, Kenneth L. Rigler Ph.D.
Applied Technology Faculty Publications
The purpose of the qualitative grounded theory study was to explore why industrial arts educators resisted organizational change to technology and engineering education. An exploratory, grounded theory method was used to identify new theory related to educators’ resistance because the current literature did not provide a theoretical perspective about why industrial arts educators have resisted the change. The sampling frame was derived from a database of 379 secondary technology and engineering education teachers in the state of Kansas, and a sample size of 13 participants was needed to reach theoretical saturation of the phenomenon. The data for the study was …
A Course Study For Two Years Of Woodwork In Class "B" And "C" High Schools Of Kansas, Wayne C. Jacka
A Course Study For Two Years Of Woodwork In Class "B" And "C" High Schools Of Kansas, Wayne C. Jacka
Master's Theses
It is the writer’s purpose to build a course of study that will be of value to the schools offering woodwork. At the present time there are only a few instructors who are using the State Course of Study and about fifty percent who are using no course of study at all. The rest are using courses of study of their own make, and the most of these are unwritten. This course of study will be built around the text books now being used and the equipment available in these schools so as to be of the greatest value to …