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Under the Corporate Thumb: Troubles With Our MATE (Modular Approach to Technology Education)

In 1939, Ruth Streitz, a professor of education from The Ohio State University, wrote rather candidly of a proliferation of “canned units” in education. Units of work had been somehow interpreted to be glorified lesson packets of subject matter that could be bought and sold in somewhat of an unrestrained market. Given their relevance to contemporary problems with “modules” in technology education, her concerns are instructive:

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