The study of educational practices in mathematics, science, and technology considers the social, psychological, economic, and political forces that affect career choice and cognitive understanding of those subject areas. The field involves the development of theories and methods that explore how students learn complex topics in the sciences and engineering. Many products of research in
Do you like performing experiments to test scientific hypotheses? Do you enjoy the challenges of working with numbers? Perhaps you like thinking of new and improved designs for vehicles or everyday products. If any of these or similar activities describe you, then you may have the innate curiosity that all of the jobs in the
Security and Civil Liberties in the Twenty-First Century We live in a time of rapid social change, being driven by technology. Consequently, policing is becoming increasingly difficult as the technologies driving change become more sophisticated and society becomes more dependent upon them. Criminals, too, are relying more on technology, increasing criminal opportunities and threatening civil liberties.
Every criminal justice organization needs to occasionally examine its core values and evaluate the process by which it provides the advertised goods and services. Strategic planning provides the tools and steps required to examine the efficiency of an agency’s product delivery systems. Both public and private agencies have an obligation to their service population, and without
“Technology,” defined by Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Ninth Edition) as “a particular means for achieving ends,” is a denotative definition, that is, it is glossed as (extended in meaning to) the totality of means employed to provide objects necessary for human sustenance and comfort. Academic definitions range widely (for a daunting list, see Roberts and Grabowsky 1996
Technology in Law Enforcement Technology can generally be described as a tool with a purpose. In the twenty-first century, when we use the term, we generally mean an automated or mechanically driven tool. There are many technologies used in law enforcement, including information technology such as records management systems, communication systems such as radios and computer-aided
There are numerous approaches to technology assessment but it is essentially a systematic method for exploring technology developments and assessing their potential societal effects. It was typically implemented as a strategy to inform policy decisions within government and industry but now includes a growing body of scholarly research in science and technology studies (Herdman &
In 1957 Vance Packard complained that the manufacturers of typewriters and telephones had recently begun producing models in a wide range of colors rather than in their traditional black. He critically surmised that the sole motive for this innovation was “to make owners dissatisfied with their plain old black models” (Packard 1957, 72). Packard understood
The term “globalization” and related terms such as global system, global economy, and global culture have been used since the mid-1980s in both the popular and academic literature to describe the “temporal-spatial compression” of the physical world (Harvey 1989). New information and (tele)communication technologies (ICTs) are viewed as linking distant localities into one globalizing world
Within a decade of its commercialization, mobile communication is now often used more than landline telephony. In the early 1990s, only the privileged few used mobile communication, but by the mid-2000s, approximately one-third of the world’s population had a mobile telephone. This period of seemingly effortless adoption has been accompanied by changes in our sense