About the Journal

About PATT

The Pupils' Attitudes Towards Technology (PATT) Conference series was born in 1983 in The Netherlands, led by Dutch researchers Jan H. Raat and Marc de Vries, as part of the "Physics and Technology" project. Initially focused on the ‘PATT Instrument’, a questionnaire to determine the attitude toward and concept of technology held by students aged 12-15 years. Having begun as annual workshops, the emerging conference series was established with the primary aim of exploring students' attitudes towards technology and understanding how these perceptions could impact their learning and engagement in technological subjects. Over the years, the PATT Conference Series has evolved into a prominent international event, drawing educators, researchers, and policymakers from across the globe. Since those early days when scholars met in Eindhoven for annual workshops, PATT has grown into an international conference that draws together a community scholars with a mission to generate and share knowledge and skills about technology, engineering, and/or design education. The annual conferences are hosted by a university in a different city and country each year, which brings together scholars, researchers, authors, students and teachers of technology, engineering, and/or design education subjects from all over the world.

Organisation

Professor Marc J. de Vries, from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, is chair of the PATT Foundation that organises the international PATT Conference Series in co-operation with colleagues worldwide. Every year (with the exception of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic) the conference is hosted by a conference committee in a different country. This gives each conference a unique character, whilst embracing the PATT spirit of inclusivity, collegiality and engagement.

Marc often humorously asserts that the official language of PATT is "broken English", reflecting the diverse international backgrounds of the conference participants, who come together from various countries and cultures to discuss technology education in a new city and country each year. PATT attendees are encouraged to treat one another as family members, and such is the culture of the community many return year after year to both learn from colleagues’ research and to renew (and make new) friendships.

Archive

This site aims to bring together an archive of the rich research presented at PATT conferences over many decades. Preserving them not just for both posterity, but to inform and inspire new research and generations of scholars and educators in the field of technology education.

Prof Marc de Vries - White male wearing glasses and blue check shirt

Professor Dr Marc J. de Vries (Chair of the PATT Foundation)

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