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Educators’ Resistance To The Technology And Engineering Education Transition, Kenneth L. Rigler Ph.D. Apr 2016

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 …


An Annotated Handbook Of Free Teaching Materials For Industrial Arts Instructors, Donald L. Ferguson May 1950

An Annotated Handbook Of Free Teaching Materials For Industrial Arts Instructors, Donald L. Ferguson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This research comprising a handbook of free teaching materials for the industrial arts instructor is prepared as an aid to the classroom and shop teacher. There are many teaching aids now available for industrial arts teachers. Comparatively few industrial arts teachers know where to obtain these materials. The primary purpose of this research is to present in form "An Annotated Handbook of Teaching Materials for These Instructors. " This handbook includes the address, name, source, and description of materials available at no cost.


A Course Study For Two Years Of Woodwork In Class "B" And "C" High Schools Of Kansas, Wayne C. Jacka Dec 1938

A Course Study For Two Years Of Woodwork In Class "B" And "C" High Schools Of Kansas, Wayne C. Jacka

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

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 …