Article

Irving-Bell, D, McLain, MN and Wooff, D (2022) 'Shaping Things': The impact of using Design Fiction as a pedagogical tool within technology and design education. Australasian Journal of Technology Education, 7. ISSN 2382-2007

McLain, MN, McLain, D, Wooff, D and Irving-Bell, D (2021) Preservice Teachers’ Perspectives on Modelling and Explaining in STEM Subjects: a Q Methodology Study. Techne Series: Research in in Sloyd Education and Crafts Science A, 28 (2). pp. 367-374. ISSN 1893-1774

McLain, MN (2021) Towards a signature pedagogy for design and technology education: a literature review. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. ISSN 0957-7572

Tynan, RJ and McLain, MN (2019) Attitudes to assessing trainee teachers on school experience placement within a group involved in an initial teacher education partnership at an 11-16 academy: a Q-methodology approach. Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 11 (4). pp. 3-20. ISSN 2054-5266

McLain, MN, Irving-Bell, D, Wooff, D and Morrison-Love, D (2019) How technology makes us human: cultural and historical roots for design and technology education. Curriculum Journal, 30 (4). pp. 464-483. ISSN 0958-5176

McLain, MN (2019) Developing perspectives on ‘the demonstration’ as a signature pedagogy in design and technology. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. ISSN 0957-7572

McLain, MN, Irving-Bell, D and Wooff, D (2019) Humanising the design and technology curriculum: Why technology education makes us human. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 24 (2). pp. 8-19. ISSN 1360-1431

Rowe, J and McLain, MN (2018) The challenges of curriculum design in initial teacher education (ITE): a perspective from Liverpool John Moores University. Impact Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching. ISSN 2514-6955

McLain, MN (2017) A new paradigm for design and technology education? [a book review of Critique in Design and Technology Education, by P.J. Williams and K. Stables (eds)]. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 22 (3). pp. 116-118. ISSN 1360-1431

McLain, MN (2017) Emerging perspectives on teacher modelling and explaining in design and technology. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 28 (14). pp. 985-1000. ISSN 0957-7572

McLain, MN (2017) Emerging perspectives on the demonstration as a signature pedagogy in design and technology education. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. ISSN 0957-7572

McLain, MN, McLain, MH, Tsai, J, Martin, MC, Bell, D and Wooff, D (2017) Traditional tales and imaginary contexts in primary design and technology: a case study. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 22 (2). pp. 26-40. ISSN 1360-1431

Bell, D, Morrison-Love, D, Wooff, D and McLain, MN (2017) STEM education in the twenty-first century: learning at work-an exploration of design and technology teacher perceptions and practices. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 28 (3). pp. 721-737. ISSN 0957-7572

Bell, D, Wooff, D, McLain, MN and Morrison-Love, D (2017) Analysing design and technology as an educational construct: an investigation into its curriculum position and pedagogical identity. Curriculum Journal, 28 (4). pp. 539-558. ISSN 0958-5176

McLain, MN, Bell, D, Smith, J and Martin, M (2014) Reviewing the Impact of the National Strategies Design and Technology Framework for Key Stage Three. The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences EJSBS, 2 (IX). pp. 1355-1366. ISSN 2301-2218

McLain, MN (2013) The challenges facing Postgraduate Trainees in Initial Teacher Education coming from practical or vocational degrees. Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 5 (2). pp. 39-56. ISSN 2054-5266

Book Section

McLain, MN and Finnigan-Moran, S (2023) Facilitating: The role of learning environments in technology education curricula. In: Gill, D, Irving-Bell, D and McLain, M, (eds.) Bloomsbury Handbook of Technology Education. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.. ISBN 9781350238411

McLain, MN (2019) Helping new D&T teachers to analyse and develop knowledge and understanding in design and technology (product design). In: Mentoring Design and Technology Teachers in the Secondary School A Practical Guide. Mentoring Trainee and Newly Qualified Teachers . Routledge. ISBN 1138541109

Conference or Workshop Item

Shukor, NA, Noor, NMD, MA’ROF, AM, HALIM, NDABD, McLain, MN, Downes, G, Rothwell, P and Tracy, F (2023) Designing an Online Course on Learning Analytics for Educators: Preliminary Insights from a Scoping Review. In: Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computers in Education . pp. 899-901. (International Conference on Computers in Education, 4th - 8th December 2023, Matsue, Japan).

McLain, MN, Bell, D, Wooff, D and Morrison-Love, D (2018) How technology makes us human: cultural and historical roots for design and technology education. In: 2018 PATT36 International Conference: Research and Practice in Technology Education , 36. pp. 223-230. (36th International Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology Conference, 18 June 2018 - 21 June 2018, Athlone Institute of Technology, Co. Westmeath, Ireland).

McLain, MN (2016) Teacher educator perspectives on pedagogical modelling and explaining in Design and Technology: a Q Methodology Study. In: PATT-32 Proceedings . pp. 329-343. (Pupils' Attitutdes Towards Technology (PATT): Technology Education for 21st Century skills, 22 August 2016 - 26 August 2016, Delft University of Technology and HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht).

Book

de Vries, MJ, Williams, PJ, Buckely, J, McLain, MN, Dooley, K, Gu, J, Du, Y, Tao, Y, Yang, Q and Zhu, W (2024) The Proceedings of the 41st International Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology Educational Research Conference: K-12 technology and engineering education and student development. Nanjing Normal University, pp. 1-310.

Other

McLain, MN and Welsh, R (2016) Design and technology GCSE subject content. Department for Education (DfE), London.

Welsh, R and McLain, MN (2015) Design and technology GCE AS and A Level subject content. Department for Education (DfE), London.