Study of technological development and education as design of a social system

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This research demonstrates that the technological developments and innovations are always accompanied with the design of social systems, through the analyses of socio-technical reconfiguration of communities of practice such as the repair technicians' community and the well-being project developed by municipality in Finland and Japan. Also, it evaluates newly introduced elderly care system in Japan and its technologies from techno-scientific points of view, focusing on the technology of "The Long-term Care Needs Certification" and its network of inscriptions.These researches are mainly analyzed in terms of how people give new social meanings to a new technology as it is introduced in their community, and then how the new technology plays a part in reorganizing social relations among various human and non-human actors in the community.The findings imply that there might be big difference in contents and performances of technology-learning, depending on what the socio-technological configurations of learning environment are, in other words, what the networks of teacher, technicians, tools, policies and new-old technologies are, under which students are educated.