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” Interestingly, almost a hundred years later an engineering professor at a British technical college opened a textbook with a definition of technology that simply shifted the genus: technology is “that branch of knowledge which deals with the processes and apparatus employed in the conversion of ...
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Data were collected via surveys from 486 schools teaching junior secondary (years 7–10), representing all Australian states and territories. Results indicated that most Australian schools use a science textbook in the junior secondary years, and textbooks are used in the majority of science lessons...