resistant materials

English

Noun

resistant materials (uncountable)

(education, Britain) A school subject combining elements of woodwork, metalwork and plastic-work, sometimes a module of a larger design and technology syllabus.
- 2000, Carrie Paechter, Changing School Subjects, →ISBN, page 43:
  This is clear, for example, in the case of GCSE D&T, where students have to follow a core course in resistant materials but can gain a GCSE by combining this with another course in food technology or textiles technology
- 2004, Adrian Percival and Susan Tranter, How to Run Your School Successfully, →ISBN, page 112:
  We heard of a school that distributed timetables one week before the end of term; a boy who had been studying resistant materials throughout year 10 had food technology on his timetable.
- 2013, Patricia Murphy, “Gender and Technology”, in Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework, →ISBN, page 224:
  There is some evidence that this may be the case with girls taking electronics, and systems and controls, and this is also the case in the advanced-level examinations but it does not hold for those girls choosing to study resistant materials or for those boys choosing to study textiles and food technology.

Synonyms

(USA) shop class

单词	resistant materials
释义	resistant materials English Noun resistant materials (uncountable) (education, Britain) A school subject combining elements of woodwork, metalwork and plastic-work, sometimes a module of a larger design and technology syllabus. 2000, Carrie Paechter, Changing School Subjects, →ISBN, page 43: This is clear, for example, in the case of GCSE D&T, where students have to follow a core course in resistant materials but can gain a GCSE by combining this with another course in food technology or textiles technology 2004, Adrian Percival and Susan Tranter, How to Run Your School Successfully, →ISBN, page 112: We heard of a school that distributed timetables one week before the end of term; a boy who had been studying resistant materials throughout year 10 had food technology on his timetable. 2013, Patricia Murphy, “Gender and Technology”, in Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework, →ISBN, page 224: There is some evidence that this may be the case with girls taking electronics, and systems and controls, and this is also the case in the advanced-level examinations but it does not hold for those girls choosing to study resistant materials or for those boys choosing to study textiles and food technology. Synonyms (USA) shop class
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