Abstract
The presented text conceptually proceeds from the strategic and conception documents of the Czech Ministry of Education (MŠMT) and includes among the priority objectives primarily the openness to the new methods and manners of teaching by means of digital technologies, improvement of pupils’ competences of working with information and digital technologies and, last but not least, the development of pupils’ IT thinking. The motivation for secondary school students’ choice of technical bran-ches is regarded as a priority orientation of the contemporary school system in the Czech Republic.
Highlights
Information and communication technologies in the last few years underwent a rapid development with consequences for the sphere of upbringing and education as well
What kind of real impact does it have on the key and professional competencies of the primary and secondary school-leavers? Do the education programmes reflect the demand for competencies required by the industry and the practice generally? What determines the present education reality in the sense of a broader conception of the education technologies? How is the problem of young peoplesmotivation to study of professional technical subjects interpreted from the viewpoint of the theory? The support of professional technical branches is a priority of the contemporary school system in the Czech Republic
Relation of the general and technological education from the historical point of view is in more detail presented in the publication General didactics
Summary
Information and communication technologies in the last few years underwent a rapid development with consequences for the sphere of upbringing and education as well. Concept of the polytechnic education, the objective of which was to acquaint the youth with the basic findings about the main branches and the production scientific principles, was intensively developed in the pedagogical theory solving concrete issues of the school practice in the socialist countries It included provision of practical generally technical skills necessary for activities in the production. The objective of the polytechnic education was the support of such personal qualities as are positive relation to work, responsibility for ones own work, respect to the work results of the other people It was realized in different ways – by means of special subjects (handicraft, work on the land and in the workshop), further in the framework of individual school subjects (in particular in the maths, physics, chemistry, biology) and in the framework of optional subjects (as are basics of the technology, technical drawing, car driving) and last but not least in the framework of various technically oriented interest groups and excursions in the production processes. As a self-evident and important means of technical thinking development is considered the solution of technical issues which is a means and objective of teaching, be it the solution of issues of a cognitive character (where prevails the analytical procedure) or of an application character
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