ABSTRACT
A National Statement on Technology for Australian Schools was released in 1994. This national document focussed upon the technological process of designing, making and appraising. Of interest was the requirement that children visualise images from a plan view if they are to effectively engage in the design element of the technological process illustrated in this document. Visualising from a plan view is not common among young children. The crosscultural analysis detailed in this chapter suggests that this perspective is culturally determined and hence learned rather than being developmentally defined. A case study of young children being introduced to a plan-view perspective is presented. It is argued in this chapter that technology education provides another medium through which children can visually think and learn about their world.
