DTTEG Update: Symposium 2027 + two book discounts (recommended: it says what’s inside)
DTTEG Update - Autumn 2026
Welcome
Our new Chair, Janine Pavlis (St Mary's University, London) welcomes you to the first DTTEG Update of the 2026/27 academic year.
Save the date: the DTTEG Symposium returns in 2027, with tickets on sale in January. This issue also brings two new reads for D&T teacher educators, each with a discount code that expires before the end of the year.
Thank you to everyone who joined us at Birmingham City University in June for the 2026 Symposium, Sustainable Collaboration and Partnership.
DTTEG Symposium 2027: save the date
Tickets for the DTTEG Symposium 2027 go on sale in January 2027, alongside full details of the date, venue, theme and programme.
The symposium is our annual gathering of university- and school-based D&T teacher educators: ITE tutors, mentors, subject leads and researchers working across primary and secondary. 2027 will be our third, following Birmingham in 2025 and Birmingham City University in 2026.
Before January:
Subscribe to the dtteg.com newsletter so the ticket announcement reaches you first.
Keep an eye on the Events page, where booking will open.
Catch up on the Proceedings of DTTEG Symposium 2025.
New edition: Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondary School
Save 20% with code 26AFLY3 at routledge.com until 31 December 2026.
The core text for anyone training to teach secondary D&T is now in its fifth edition, edited by Alison Hardy and Sarah Davies (Routledge, July 2026, 336 pages). This edition introduces a knowledge model built for the subject, sets out curriculum intent and how pupils build capability, and adds new chapters on inclusion, mentoring and the evolving shape of D&T.
Its 19 chapters run from materials, textiles, electronics and food through lesson and curriculum planning, assessment and transition, to working with your mentor and your professional development. It suits trainees on every route, and the mentors and tutors who support them.
Paperback ISBN 978-1-041-14270-6 (With code)
Also available as an eBook (ISBN 978-1-003-67366-8).
Order: routledge.com/9781041142706
Course leaders: request a complimentary inspection copy at routledge.pub/InspectionCopies.
The code applies only to books bought directly from routledge.com and cannot be combined with any other offer.
New fiction: The Ms Tan Tales, Book One — Coming Up in the Next Episode…
50% off the ebook and audiobook on PayHip with code LX986OL0PJ until 15 November 2026.
Year 8 at Shining Academy, a post-industrial Midlands school, expect D&T to follow the usual pattern: a rotation, a scheme of work and a small wooden object nobody wants. Violet Jones is counting on it. Instead, Ms Tan hands her a persona card bearing a stranger's name and a fictional town in 2050 to design for, with no steps, no worksheet and no obvious first move.
Told over eight lessons in eight episodes, one Wednesday at a time, the book is what its author, OK Kitsune, calls speculative pedagogy fiction: a story that tests a teaching idea in a realistic classroom, with no promise that it works. For teacher educators, it offers a ready-made way into discussing design fiction, open-ended briefs and the pupil's view of a D&T lesson.
Buy with the discount: payhip.com/b/mMkuC (PDF, EPUB, MP3)
Also available: ebook on Amazon Kindle and Apple Books; paperback on Amazon; audiobook on Audible and Amazon, with Apple Books coming soon.
Published by kyōshi (kyoushi.co.uk). The code applies to PayHip purchases only.
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Write for us: share your practice or research on the DTTEG blog. See Submitting a Blogpost.
Join a meeting: the Primary DTTEG Meetings 2026/27 run online through the year. See Events.
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