Prof MT Gumbo attended the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) conference in a snowy Columbus, Ohio in USA from 7-9 March 2013 to present his paper, “A bumpy ride – Curriculum change and its impact on Technology Education in South Africa: Voices from the academy”. This is an annual conference that attracts very high attendance. The conference paralleled presentations with displays of technology kits and equipment in a very spacious hall. The kits and equipment covered a range from a simple display of the flying mechanism of a boomerang to a complicated high tech machine for material processing and malleability procedures. The displays showed what the engineering and industrial sector can do to provide schools, which offer Technology as a subject, with suitable equipment.
The writing team during one of the lunch breaks taken in the book writing and planning week
In the second week of his trip to the USA, Prof MT Gumbo proceeded to a book writing meeting in New York as he is contributing a chapter to the book. He joined the writing team from different countries, which includes Technology Education gurus like March de Vries (founder of PATT, i.e. Pupils Attitudes Towards Technology which gave birth to PATT conferences), John Williams, David Barlex and Kay Stables. Chapter drafts had been assigned critical readers within the group and feedback was given and further round table discourses also took place. A way forward was charted which should see the book published by the end of 2013.
All the writers who are contributing to the book for which Prof MT Gumbo is writing a chapter
