The purpose of this research was to develop the technology education program based on theme-centered integrative approach for secondary students. The main focus of the program was to help students to understand and solve integrative problems in relati...
The purpose of this research was to develop the technology education program based on theme-centered integrative approach for secondary students. The main focus of the program was to help students to understand and solve integrative problems in relation to technology, science, and mathematics in the real world.The program was developed through three major phases such as analysis, exploration, and development. At the first phase: analysis, integrative curriculum theory was analyzed after analysis of technology-related integrative curriculum including Technology-Science-Mathematics(TSM), Science-Technology-Society(STS), and others.The following four steps were passed through the second phase, exploration: (1) development of model for analysis of integration types, (2) selection of integration type for the technology education program to be developed, (3) establishing five selection criteria for theme of integration for the technology education program to be developed, and (4) modeling development of the technology education program. There were three major steps in the final phase development: (1) First preparation step included ① need analysis of technology education program based on integrative approach and ② selecting theme of integration for the technology education program to be developed. (2) Second development step consisted of ① setting up educational goal and/or objectives of technology education program, ② selection of program content, ③ webbing, ④ organization of instructional content, ⑤ statement of instructional objectives. (3) Third, pilot test for increasing reliability and field test for establishing content validity were performed in the final improvement step.