A Comparison Of The Curriculum Of General Technology Education Between China And The United States

Form the20thcentury, all the countries in the world put their focus on thestrengthen Technology Education. It has become an important part in the basiceducation reform. Our Ministry of Education publish the Technology EducationCurriculum Standards declares that our technology education enter a new era. As thisnew curriculum should be geared to the needs of modernization of the world and ofthe future,so it is necessary to learn other developed countries’ s technologyeducation’s successful experience as to improve our education’ s effects. Americanas western developed country, its’ technology education as a long history. The wholeworld are pay attention to it’s education. So compare American’s and China’stechnology education can not only find the similar and different factors, but also helpus to understand the curriculum’ s value. In this paper, start form the two countries’historical development to introduce the curriculum’s background and the feature, andto compare two countries’ curriculum standards, the definition of technology,teaching objectives, curriculum setting, the concrete chapters and combine to thepractical activities to analysis the existing problem.In the end, according to these analysis, give some constructive advice.