Technology Education Curriculum Designs in Michigan Secondary Education

Curriculum Change in Technology Education: A Theoretical Perspective on Personal Relevance Curriculum Designs

Personal relevance curriculum designs are compatible with most mission and philosophical statements for technology education; yet, there are few, if any curriculum plans that emphasize this design. The experience-based nature of technology education suggests a certain affinity with personal relevance. Practice and theory within the profession has influenced and has been influenced by personal r...

Technology Education in Korea: Curriculum and Challenges

As a separate subject and a part of general education, technology education (TE) began to be offered to secondary students in Korea in 1970 under the name of kisul (literally, technology). While it has provided technological knowledge and capability, there have been issues and challenges in curriculum, instruction, and teacher education. This paper presents a brief history along with the status...

Technology-Supported Cooperative Learning in Secondary Education

Afier watching the results from electronic meeting systems (EMS) use in the business arena, educators are beginning to look at EMS as a tool for group learning. Many of the initial educational uses of EMS have been ,focused at the university level, and only a few school systems have put the technology to use in the public schools. The University of Arizona’s GroupSystems was installed at a loca...

The Stochastics Curriculum in Primary and Secondary Education in Spain

INTRODUCTION Statistics is a science of wide and increasing use in the current world, social media and numerous sciences. Consequently, society requires an adequate statistics training for all its citizen, from their educational institutions, that is, statistics for all the citizens (Jacobsen, 1991). There has been a pressing need for the inclusion of statistical contents in the curriculum from...

Positioning Secondary School Education in Developing Countries: Expansion and Curriculum