Abstract
Opinions on the development of human resources for science and technology innovation are analyzed in detail as a first step in order to consider the role of junior high school technology education for education policy, which is related to science and technology policy. Furthermore, we also aim to investigate the role of learning abilities for technology education in general education from the view of the development of human resources. The analyzed results showed that the abilities of “problem solving skills” and “communication skills” etc. were recommended in each field from the views of civil service, academic and industrial society, and are needed for human resources. Also, the above abilities for the development of human resources, such as “problem solving skills” and “communication skills”, were related to the learning abilities for general education in junior high school technology education. The results suggest that the learning ability in junior high school technology education, such as “problem solving skills”, which is meant to contain both “problem finding” and “problem solving” skills, was extracted as the most related skill for science and technology innovation, and that such skills are important for investigating the learning ability of junior high school technology education.
