According to the assignment, your project should have the following elements:
a brief personal and academic biography (minor)
the individuals, ideas, and experiences which influenced the development of the person’s philosophy/theory/ research and how (minor)
the main principles/theories, key elements, and important details of the person’s theory/philosophy/research (major)
examples of how the person’s theory/philosophy/research has been implemented or evident in past iterations of American public schools (minor)
which elements of the theory/philosophy/research have/can/should be transferred to a technology and engineering classroom (major)
Several, specific examples of how of those elements of the theory/philosophy/research could be implemented in the activities, instruction, and environment of the technology and engineering classroom (major)
Below, I'll explain which resources can help you answer each of these questions.
A few how-to guides you might find useful:
These resources should help you find information about the theorist you are researching, their influences, and the key points about their theories. They may also have some information about how their theories have been interpreted in U.S. and other Western schools.
The first two sources I recommend are (online) multi-volume encyclopedias. As you can see from the publication dates, they're somewhat dated. This may impact whether your theorist appears in them or not.
This next link has more current information that may be helpful for some theorists:
If you haven't had any luck with the above sources, try ERIC! You may find a few articles or reports on your theory / theorist.
Still haven't found what you need? Try searching for books!
I understand you probably don't have time to read an entire book for this assignment, but you might find a chapter or two that is useful. (And that's a perfectly good way to use a book.)
For the last few questions, you may want to search some of the library's databases to see if articles have been written about your theory / theorist, and how they relate to technology and engineering.
Although most search tools will look for all of the words you search for, they don't always look for those words together. If you want to search for a specific phrase, put it in quotes - e.g. "cognitive load." (This works in Google and most library databases.)
In addition to your theory / theorist, you might try searching for these topics:
