Editorial Celebrating the 40th year of PATT conferences

An International journal is a rather special one, special because it is being published in the 40th year since the PATT conference and international PATT community was founded, and special because we have a Guest-edited Special Issue of articles developed from the 40 th PATT Conference.(The PATT Acronym was created from the first ever PATT conference and stands for Pupils Attitudes Towards Technology).The use of the word 'pupil' gives the game away that conference papers presented focus mainly on schools education -research relating to design and technology education for those aged from 3 to 18 years.We are particularly excited by this special issue as it is a 'bumper' one, 21 research articles provided by authors from 9 countries across 4 continents, providing insight into learning and teaching from early years upwards.The Guest Editors, Sarah Davies, Matt McLain and Bhavna