Technical Education in Basic Schools - History and Present

Example of Good Practice for Supporting Steam in Technical Subjects Learning

“…In the Czech Republic, technical education at primary school is defined by the so-called Framework Educational Program for Primary Education (abbreviated RVP ZV), which was established in 2005 and replaced the so-called Primary School Educational Program (Serafín, Havelka, Kropáč, 2017).…”

“…Technical education at primary school was noted in the Czech Republic at the beginning of the second millennium, when, as part of the so-called information literacy, school workshops were canceled en masse in many schools and transformed into computer science classrooms, with the understanding that, thanks to information literacy, work activities would no longer be needed, or the workshops were allowed, but in not entirely dignified conditions (Serafín, Havelka, Kropáč, 2017). Today we can already see that work activities are still needed, which is why even within the framework of projects from the MŠMT (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) workshops are currently being built, renovated and modernized again (Dostál, 2018).…”