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This chapter focuses on integrating education for sustainability (EfS) into technology education in primary schools in New Zealand and Australia. The curricula of both countries have featured technology education as a learning area since the late 1980s and early 1990s (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2014a; New Zealand Ministry of Education, 1993).
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Eames, C., Lockley, J., Milne, L. (2015). Education for Sustainability in Primary Technology Education. In: Taylor, N., Quinn, F., Eames, C. (eds) Educating for Sustainability in Primary Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-046-8_7
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