John R. Dakers is an independent researcher and author working at the crossroads of philosophy and education. He has published monographs, edited collections and journal articles. His last book is entitled A Nomadic Pedagogy about Technology: Teaching the Ongoing Process of Becoming Ethnotechnologically Literate (Brill 2023).

• AcknowledgementsExplainerList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Introduction to This Festschrift for Marc J de Vries: A Book Full of Dreams about the Future of Technology EducationJohn R Dakers2 A Most Unusual PhilosopherCarl Mitcham3 A Vision of Technology Education; A USA PerspectiveJohn M Ritz4 The Role of Technology Education in Facing the World of Tomorrow: A Perspective based on Knowledge TraditionsCharlotta Nordlöf5 From Capitalist Vision to Curriculum Crisis: Navigating the Politics of Design and Technology in England’s Education SystemDavid Spendlove6 Back to the Future: (Re)imagining a History-based Technology CurriculumJonas Hallström7 Empowering Students to Bridge the Gap into a Knowledge-Driven Technological Realm: The Case of Technology Education in IsraelMoshe Barak8 Technological Concepts and Technical Contexts for Technology EducationAndrew Doyle9 The Wisdom, Power and Promise of Marc J. de Vries’ ThoughtsKendall N. Starkweather10 A Technology Curriculum for 2030 and BeyondHilda Ruth Beaumont11 The Design Concept/Methodology – A Personal Professional VoyageOsnat Dagan12 A New Future for Technology Education in Wales: A Case Study of Curriculum AmbitionFrank Banks13 Developing a New Technology Curriculum for an Urban Setting: Tales of Trials, Tribulations and Tiny TriumphsGerald van Dijk and Elwin Savelsbergh14 Enduring Concepts and Pluralistic Perspectives for Educating through Designerly Thinking, Doing and Acting towards Positive World FuturesKay Stables15 Wood Cloud: A composition of Intensity for Collaborative LearningMaarten C.A. van der Sanden16 Food as an Aspect of Technology Education in the 21st CenturyMarion Rutland17 Why It Is Essential That (Ethno)Technological Literacy Is Embodied into STEM and STEAM EducationJohn R Dakers18 Technology Education in Context: Beyond Consumer CulturesMike Martin19 Who Are We Fooling with Schooling? Why We Must Break from a Nineteenth Century System and Educate for the Twenty-First CenturyPhilip A. Reed20 The Genesis of Contemporary Technology Education: From Attitude Studies to a Mature FieldPiet Ankiewicz21 Design Learning at the Limits of PedagogyRichard Kimbell22 Directions for Technology Education in FinlandSonja Niiranen, Aki Rasinen, Pasi Ikonen, Timo Rissanen and Hanna Kauppinen23 Talking Technology into the FutureWendy Fox-Turnbull24 A Strategy for Moral Formation of ProfessionalsHenk Jochemsen25 Family Prospects and the Oblate SpheroidSteve Keirl26 Technology Ethics at Work: Innovation and EducationMaarten J. Verkerk27 Technology and TraditionRoel Kuiper28 Whose Idea Is It Anyway?: Designing with Generative AIAlice Schut and Christian Detweiler29 Adapting the Design and Technology Curriculum: A Framework for Evaluation and EvolutionAlison Hardy30 Nurturing Design and Technological Thinking: A Core Goal in Technology EducationDavid Mioduser31 Opportunities Won: Unexpected Encounters: Narratives from Practitioner-Based ResearchEva Hartell

John R. Dakers is an independent researcher and author working at the crossroads of philosophy and education. He has published monographs, edited collections and journal articles. His last book is entitled A Nomadic Pedagogy about Technology: Teaching the Ongoing Process of Becoming Ethnotechnologically Literate (Brill 2023).

• AcknowledgementsExplainerList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Introduction to This Festschrift for Marc J de Vries: A Book Full of Dreams about the Future of Technology EducationJohn R Dakers2 A Most Unusual PhilosopherCarl Mitcham3 A Vision of Technology Education; A USA PerspectiveJohn M Ritz4 The Role of Technology Education in Facing the World of Tomorrow: A Perspective based on Knowledge TraditionsCharlotta Nordlöf5 From Capitalist Vision to Curriculum Crisis: Navigating the Politics of Design and Technology in England’s Education SystemDavid Spendlove6 Back to the Future: (Re)imagining a History-based Technology CurriculumJonas Hallström7 Empowering Students to Bridge the Gap into a Knowledge-Driven Technological Realm: The Case of Technology Education in IsraelMoshe Barak8 Technological Concepts and Technical Contexts for Technology EducationAndrew Doyle9 The Wisdom, Power and Promise of Marc J. de Vries’ ThoughtsKendall N. Starkweather10 A Technology Curriculum for 2030 and BeyondHilda Ruth Beaumont11 The Design Concept/Methodology – A Personal Professional VoyageOsnat Dagan12 A New Future for Technology Education in Wales: A Case Study of Curriculum AmbitionFrank Banks13 Developing a New Technology Curriculum for an Urban Setting: Tales of Trials, Tribulations and Tiny TriumphsGerald van Dijk and Elwin Savelsbergh14 Enduring Concepts and Pluralistic Perspectives for Educating through Designerly Thinking, Doing and Acting towards Positive World FuturesKay Stables15 Wood Cloud: A composition of Intensity for Collaborative LearningMaarten C.A. van der Sanden16 Food as an Aspect of Technology Education in the 21st CenturyMarion Rutland17 Why It Is Essential That (Ethno)Technological Literacy Is Embodied into STEM and STEAM EducationJohn R Dakers18 Technology Education in Context: Beyond Consumer CulturesMike Martin19 Who Are We Fooling with Schooling? Why We Must Break from a Nineteenth Century System and Educate for the Twenty-First CenturyPhilip A. Reed20 The Genesis of Contemporary Technology Education: From Attitude Studies to a Mature FieldPiet Ankiewicz21 Design Learning at the Limits of PedagogyRichard Kimbell22 Directions for Technology Education in FinlandSonja Niiranen, Aki Rasinen, Pasi Ikonen, Timo Rissanen and Hanna Kauppinen23 Talking Technology into the FutureWendy Fox-Turnbull24 A Strategy for Moral Formation of ProfessionalsHenk Jochemsen25 Family Prospects and the Oblate SpheroidSteve Keirl26 Technology Ethics at Work: Innovation and EducationMaarten J. Verkerk27 Technology and TraditionRoel Kuiper28 Whose Idea Is It Anyway?: Designing with Generative AIAlice Schut and Christian Detweiler29 Adapting the Design and Technology Curriculum: A Framework for Evaluation and EvolutionAlison Hardy30 Nurturing Design and Technological Thinking: A Core Goal in Technology EducationDavid Mioduser31 Opportunities Won: Unexpected Encounters: Narratives from Practitioner-Based ResearchEva Hartell

John R. Dakers is an independent researcher and author working at the crossroads of philosophy and education. He has published monographs, edited collections and journal articles. His last book is entitled A Nomadic Pedagogy about Technology: Teaching the Ongoing Process of Becoming Ethnotechnologically Literate (Brill 2023).

• AcknowledgementsExplainerList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Introduction to This Festschrift for Marc J de Vries: A Book Full of Dreams about the Future of Technology EducationJohn R Dakers2 A Most Unusual PhilosopherCarl Mitcham3 A Vision of Technology Education; A USA PerspectiveJohn M Ritz4 The Role of Technology Education in Facing the World of Tomorrow: A Perspective based on Knowledge TraditionsCharlotta Nordlöf5 From Capitalist Vision to Curriculum Crisis: Navigating the Politics of Design and Technology in England’s Education SystemDavid Spendlove6 Back to the Future: (Re)imagining a History-based Technology CurriculumJonas Hallström7 Empowering Students to Bridge the Gap into a Knowledge-Driven Technological Realm: The Case of Technology Education in IsraelMoshe Barak8 Technological Concepts and Technical Contexts for Technology EducationAndrew Doyle9 The Wisdom, Power and Promise of Marc J. de Vries’ ThoughtsKendall N. Starkweather10 A Technology Curriculum for 2030 and BeyondHilda Ruth Beaumont11 The Design Concept/Methodology – A Personal Professional VoyageOsnat Dagan12 A New Future for Technology Education in Wales: A Case Study of Curriculum AmbitionFrank Banks13 Developing a New Technology Curriculum for an Urban Setting: Tales of Trials, Tribulations and Tiny TriumphsGerald van Dijk and Elwin Savelsbergh14 Enduring Concepts and Pluralistic Perspectives for Educating through Designerly Thinking, Doing and Acting towards Positive World FuturesKay Stables15 Wood Cloud: A composition of Intensity for Collaborative LearningMaarten C.A. van der Sanden16 Food as an Aspect of Technology Education in the 21st CenturyMarion Rutland17 Why It Is Essential That (Ethno)Technological Literacy Is Embodied into STEM and STEAM EducationJohn R Dakers18 Technology Education in Context: Beyond Consumer CulturesMike Martin19 Who Are We Fooling with Schooling? Why We Must Break from a Nineteenth Century System and Educate for the Twenty-First CenturyPhilip A. Reed20 The Genesis of Contemporary Technology Education: From Attitude Studies to a Mature FieldPiet Ankiewicz21 Design Learning at the Limits of PedagogyRichard Kimbell22 Directions for Technology Education in FinlandSonja Niiranen, Aki Rasinen, Pasi Ikonen, Timo Rissanen and Hanna Kauppinen23 Talking Technology into the FutureWendy Fox-Turnbull24 A Strategy for Moral Formation of ProfessionalsHenk Jochemsen25 Family Prospects and the Oblate SpheroidSteve Keirl26 Technology Ethics at Work: Innovation and EducationMaarten J. Verkerk27 Technology and TraditionRoel Kuiper28 Whose Idea Is It Anyway?: Designing with Generative AIAlice Schut and Christian Detweiler29 Adapting the Design and Technology Curriculum: A Framework for Evaluation and EvolutionAlison Hardy30 Nurturing Design and Technological Thinking: A Core Goal in Technology EducationDavid Mioduser31 Opportunities Won: Unexpected Encounters: Narratives from Practitioner-Based ResearchEva Hartell