The necessity of teaching material and its development in technology education in Estonia
2017
Lips, A., Tallinn Univ. (Estonia) | Kikkull, A., Tallinn Univ. (Estonia)
In the year 2011 the last curriculum for basic schools in Estonia was accepted. The implementation of the curriculum challenges teaching materials in use. Estonian lifelong learning strategy 2020 foresees the modernization and renewal of teaching materials through increasing their digitalization. To find out the current status of study ware in general education schools, a mapping was carried out in Estonia from February to April 2016. The mapping covered all the subjects including technology education. This study made it possible to get a nationwide overview of the existing teaching materials and its quality that support the curriculum. For the authors of this article, the mapping created interest to find out whether and how the Estonian technology education teaching materials have changed and developed in recent decades to meet the various existing syllabus goals. What type of teaching materials are used by the technology teachers now and what kind of teaching materials they need for technology lessons and meeting the goals in the curriculum? To answer the questions in the research results of the mapping of teaching materials and content analysis of technology education textbooks and syllabuses are used in this article. To find out the needs of teachers the results of a survey from autumn 2016 and its analysis were taken as a base. To analyze the data in the survey a programme SPSS 22 was used. As an overall result there can be said that the change in the theoretical content of teaching materials corresponds the changes in the curriculum. At the same time instructional materials of practical tasks have not changed enough. These are, however, the most required and used by the teachers in the teaching process. Instructional materials for practical tasks created using today's digital possibilities are most needed by teachers.
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