S2001-1-2 Educational Practice to Bring up Elementary School Children Interested in Science and Technology

Present Situation and Problems of Technology Education in Japan: With Focusing on Technology Education as General Education

“…The utility of technology education is recognized and there are many reports on classroom practice according to grade and age (Itakura, 2009;Harada et al, 2014;Fujikawa et al, 2014;Nagao, 2012). However, technology education, as general education, is limited to the "Technology" in junior high school education (JSTE, 2014).…”