List of Articles Technology Education

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  1 - Evaluation of Attention to Technology Literacy Level in General Education (grades 1-9)
  Yousef Adib Mohammad Reza Ezzati Eskandar Fathiazar Firouz Mahmudi
  In the last three decades, Technology education has been part of the curriculum in public education, with the aim of fostering technology literacy. Technology education or technology literacy is an educational program that assists people to have an understanding and abi More

  In the last three decades, Technology education has been part of the curriculum in public education, with the aim of fostering technology literacy. Technology education or technology literacy is an educational program that assists people to have an understanding and ability in designing and using technology products and systems and assessing the appropriateness of technological actions. This research was conducted to analyze textbook contents with regard to technology literacy elements. The method was content analysis. The population included all textbooks in grades 1 to 9, and the sampling was purposeful in which 24 textbooks were selected and their content were analyzed by two teachers using 20 elements of technology literacy through separate coding. The data were first described in frequency tables and analyzed later. The findings showed that technology literacy elements of understanding the nature and effects of technology are presented insufficiently. Process skills development elements are presented to an acceptable extent but these processes were far from technological processes such as Designing and Troubleshooting which are technological in nature. Also, regarding technological fields, information technology was the dominant content including 3/4 of the content, and little was left to other fields. Therefore, in general, it can be concluded that the new national curriculum is potentially weak and insufficient to develop technology literacy in all its dimensions Manuscript profile
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  2 - The Study of Curriculum Components on Technology Education for Preschool Teachers
  mohammadhossein zarei AhmadReza Nasr
  Researchers have shown that there is a significant relationship between preschool teachers literacy and education that they offer. In recent years, we have seen an increase in educators’ information literacy. The present study aims to investigate curriculum elemen More

  Researchers have shown that there is a significant relationship between preschool teachers literacy and education that they offer. In recent years, we have seen an increase in educators’ information literacy. The present study aims to investigate curriculum elements on technology education of preschool teachers. This research was quantitative and descriptive methods were used. Statistical society includes preschool teachers of Fars. Data was collected by a researcher made questionnaire with cronbach’s alpha (0/94) coefficient. Friedman’s test result showed that according to view point of teachers on purpose of technology education, familiarity with the newest resources for preschool education. On content of technology education, familiarity with various and informative games. On learning- teaching approaches of technology education, invite specialist person to train and on evaluate of technology education, functional tests in terms of importance are very important from the perspective of preschool teachers. Also, this point is worth mentioning that all the items in the questionnaire are of great importance, because the average of all items is higher than the assumed average (4). Manuscript profile