International Applicability of Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy

This chapter will examine some of the international curriculum developments in Technology Education and speculate about the applicability of the ITEEA’s Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy to these developments. There are 19 international ITEEA STEM Centres around the world, some of which used the previous Standards for Technological Literacy for a range of purposes, and their past and future use of Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy (STEL) will be discussed. The chapter will conclude by framing STEL within international concepts of postcolonialism, postmodernism and neoliberalism, all of which significantly impact international educational developments and provide a framework for the critique of such developments.