Η τεχνολογία στην καθημερινή ζωή όπως την αντιλαμβάνονται παιδιά του δημοτικού σχολείου

Περίληψη

The aim of the pilot research we present here was to investigate primary school pupils' representations about daily life technologies (DLT) in a prospect of studying technology in Greek Primary Education. The participants were 300 pupils (145 girls, 155 boys) in fourth, fifth and sixth grade of 5 primary schools in central Greece. The pupils were called to answer an open-ended question by selecting freely the way of answer with a text and/or a drawing. The majority of the pupils answered by drawing, the study of which showed that almost 1/3 of the pupils conceive DLT exclusively as Information and Communication Technology. Simultaneously, more than half of the pupils faced DLT as a group of technical means isolated from human activities and the social frame of their use. The technologies that are reported more often are ICT, domestic technology (electric appliances mainly} and transportation means. These data are used for planning, organizing and implementing a mini curriculum for studying technology in primary education within the frame of social constructivism.