Preparation of technology education teacher in Lithuania, Finland and Great Britain
2017
Zygaitiene, B., Lithuanian Univ. of Educational Sciences, Vilnius (Lithuania) | Buivydaite, E., Lithuanian Univ. of Educational Sciences, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Under conditions of rapid technological, information, economic, cultural and social changes in the 21st century, there emerges a problem of identifying what kind of teachers should be trained for future generations, what curricular of the study subjects of Technology/Home Economics /Design and Technologies should be implemented in schools of general education to enhance school students’ motivation to learn and to obtain generic and technological competences. In various countries different traditions of training teachers of Technologies/Home Economics/Design and Technologies have been established following the traditions and needs of every country. Employing the methods of analysis and meta-analysis of scientific resources and documents, the article focuses on pedagogical study programmes of Technologies/Home Economics /Design and Technologies as well as on similarities and differences in their curricular. Seeking to employ the good experience in teacher training accumulated in foreign countries, the aims and learning outcomes of the study programmes implemented in Lithuania, Finland and Great Britain are analysed, the volumes of the study subjects of Nutrition, Textile, Constructive Materials, Electronics, Design; the study subjects of Pedagogy and Psychology; Research Activities and Graduation Paper Preparation; Sustainable Development and Consumption Culture are compared.
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