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

本研究通过分析维修技师社区和芬兰和日本市政当局开发的福利项目等实践社区的社会技术重构，表明技术发展和创新总是伴随着社会系统的设计。从技术科学的角度对日本新引进的养老制度及其技术进行评价，重点关注“长期护理需求认证”技术及其题词网络。这些研究主要分析了当一项新技术被引入他们的社区时，人们如何赋予它新的社会意义，以及新技术如何在重组社区中各种人类和非人类行动者之间的社会关系中发挥作用。研究结果表明，技术学习的内容和表现可能会有很大的差异，这取决于学习环境的社会技术配置，即教师、技术人员、工具、政策和新旧技术的网络是什么，学生在其中受教育。

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.