Consciousness among Students of Education on Productive Activities, and of Such Technology Education at Junior High Schools : Findings by a Survey Covering from Primary School 3rd Year Graders All the Way up to Senior High School 3rd Year Grader

Abstract

This study has been jointly undertaken by our group, for the object of finding out details of what general kind of consciousness is held by students as to how to teach formative productive activities at their schools, and also, such technology education at the junior high school level. Our surveys have been realized on a combined total of 4260 students, all the way from the primary school third-year graders up to the senior high school third-year graders. The results of the whole research have clearly shown that 1) students have a very keen consciousness of productive activities; 2) They also have high expectations and hopes with such technology education at junior high schools; and 3) Above all, the richer learning their experience of formative productive activities ,the stronger are their wishes about such formative productive activities and, furthermore, the higher are their evaluations of such technology education of the kind at the junior high school level.