How can we meet the challenges posed by a new model of practical scholarship

The contention of the previous chapter is that the challenges now facing us in design and technology are present because our aspirations for practical scholarship in schools have led us to a new relevance in relation to the society in which we now live. Those aspirations manifest themselves through the processes of ‘designing’, with knowledge and making skills the important means to an end (knowledge and thought in action), not ends in themselves. What the processes of designing bring to practical scholarship are degrees of uncertainty which are a prerequisite for ‘the creative imaginative skills of hypothesis’ (Green 1985: 59).