Abstract
<p>Social and Professional Responsibility in Our Professions...or...<em>Pragmateia</em> in the Grand Scheme of Things</p>
Highlights
This article is based on a presentation at the March 16, 2002, Epsilon Pi Tau International Breakfast held at the annual conference of the International Technology Education Association in Columbus, Ohio
Where do we see the new technology education positioned? Is it at the development stage where the program is protected and supported by doting guardians? Or has it advanced to the maturity stage where it has a life of its own and has its place in the fabric of the internal and external community? I hesitate to speak the term aloud, could it be in the pretender stage, lacking some key element of functionality or quality? Where would you place our profession? For the sake of this article, I will assume that we have evolved only to the development stage and that there is still time and room for additional creation that could lead to even greater significance for the study of technology
Is there content in our field of study that would help all learners understand and work for peace in the world? Certainly the Technology Content Standards in the Standards for Technology Literacy (STL; ITEA, 2000) support that idea in providing a complete strand titled “Technology and Society” where four standards are devoted to that topic
Summary
Social and Professional Responsibility in Our Professions...or...Pragmateia in the Grand Scheme of Things. E. Warner to that effort and many other initiatives in what we may call Technology Studies. As you might expect, Warner’s social reconstructionist philosophy found its way into the Epsilon Pi Tau ritual as Pragmeteia—social and professional proficiency—to think of professional and social needs first in order to live in peace and to assume an effective place in our society. In the grand scheme of things we might ask, How can we reconstruct our school and our profession in order to create a better society? This article is based on a presentation at the March 16, 2002, Epsilon Pi Tau International Breakfast held at the annual conference of the International Technology Education Association in Columbus, Ohio
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