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Taking Ideas on a Journey

Researching Designing in a Kent Primary School

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International Handbook of Primary Technology Education

Part of the book series: International Technology Education Studies ((ITES,volume 7))

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This couplet, along with other bits of idiosyncratic terminology, enabled me to placemark my journey through the maze of learning to be a researcher: from being an angry middle-aged infant teacher (demanding to know on what research data were based the English Design and Technology National Curriculum’s (1990) claims of what six year olds will do) to being a university lecturer with a Ph.D. behind her (2003), wanting to move into reflective “scholarly” work, developing “conclusions” rather than reporting “findings”.

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  1. Canterbury Christchurch University, Kent, England

    Gill Hope

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  1. Birmingham City University, UK

    Clare Benson

  2. Birmingham City University, UK

    Julie Lunt

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Hope, G. (2011). Taking Ideas on a Journey. In: Benson, C., Lunt, J. (eds) International Handbook of Primary Technology Education. International Technology Education Studies, vol 7. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-546-8_18

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