Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/mo.29.1.6
Interests of Croatian primary school pupils about elective Technology Teaching and school activities
Damir Purković
orcid.org/0000-0002-2046-3972
; School of Polytechnics, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Dino Delač
orcid.org/0000-0002-2584-2664
; Electrical Industrial and Craft School Rijeka, Croatia
Stjepan Kovačević
orcid.org/0000-0002-7523-4632
; Faculty of Science, University of Split, Croatia
Abstract
Allowing pupils to choose the content of their learning is an important step towards individualized development. Despite the need proclaimed by society for the development of competences in STEM area, educational cycles in this field are the least represented in the Croatian general education curriculum. This research was conducted in order to gain insight into pupils’ interests in the contents of technical culture and for school activities. The research was conducted on a stratified sample of primary school pupils in Croatia (N = 2155) aged 11 to 15 years. The analysis of the research results showed that the activities from ICT, robotics, programming and woodworking are the most attractive. When it comes to school activities, pupils most prefer sports activities, computer activities, experiments in science subjects and then technical activities. This result suggests that the school curricula needs to be redesigned so that pupils can develop according to their interests.
Keywords
election teaching; extracurricular activities; curriculum; primary education; technology education
Hrčak ID:
279501
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Publication date:
21.6.2022.
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