Comparative Study on Curriculum Development for Technology Literacy within Universal Education in Eight Countries

该项目的报告描述了英国、法国、瑞典、美国、德国、俄罗斯、韩国、台湾这八个国家现在被称为技术素养的课程发展的一些新的国际趋势，并对这些国家的技术教育课程和教材进行了分析。研究结果表明：(1)从小学到十一、十年级，技术教育课程都是作为普及教育开设的。这一趋势在大多数先进国家都是公认的。(2)技术教育的课程框架正在变化，以向孩子们介绍现代技术和现实的工作世界。

The report of this project describes some new international trends of the curriculum development for what is now called the technology literacy, in the eight countries ; England, France, Sweden, United States of America, Germany, Russia, Korea, Taiwan.The national curricula and textbooks of the technology education in these countries are analyzed. The results are as follows ;(1) The technology education courses are provided as the universal education from the elementary school level to the eleventh or tenth grade. This trend is recognized common to most of the advanced nations.(2) The curriculum frameworks for the technology education are changing in order to introduce children to the modern technology and the real world of work.