Technology Association of South Africa

Technology Association of South Africa for Teachers and Educators

The creative and problem solving learning area called Technology encourages learners to acquire knowledge in the areas of structures, systems and processing. Is also focuses on Indigenous Technology, the bias and impact of Technology on the lives of people and the environment, by teaching through the methodology of the Design Process or Technological Processes (Investigate, Design, Make, Evaluate and Communicate)

The Technology Association is a professional non-profit society for teachers of Technology.
Our aims are:
- To facilitate interaction between members.
- To inform members.
- To facilitate in-service training in response to the needs of members and other teachers.
- To promote the development of Technology as a Learning Area.

Prof. Selby, in 1993 defined technology as
“ The process & product of human skill and ingenuity in designing and making things out of available resources to satisfy personal needs and societal needs and wants.”

Therefore the Technology Teacher should be a creative, innovative, well organised person who is prepared to learn. Our Technology Association aims to help technology teachers.

Frank Banks, 1994 stated:
“How do we describe, and educate our children for those human activities which bring about change, enhance the environment and generally get things done? What is the nature of capability in these activities, how can it be fostered and what kind of backup knowledge and experience is needed? How can future citizens be better equipped to foresee consequences and make choices?”

As the Technology Association we feel that Technology is the learning area, which can greatly help to achieve this!!!

To teach this learning area effectively, is the Technology teacher’s challenge!