Motivational Orientation of Pupils in Relation to Technical Education at Slovak Primary Schools

Abstract

Recently, our society has shown the need of increasing the interest in technical education. A reflection of this fact is also the reform action by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, aimed at changing the goals, educational contents and the overall modernization of the own teaching process. As these changes have affected the subject of Working Teaching and the subject of Technology for the Technical Education of Young People, it is to be expected, that changes in the National Educational Programme will be positively reflected in the contents of the individual subjects. Innovated National Educational Programme approved by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic in 2015 fully reinforces the teaching of natural science subjects and puts more emphasis on the technical education of elementary school pupils. It adjusts goals, content and timing in the subject Technique. In an effort to contribute to the modernization of education, we wanted to find the level of motivational orientation of pupils associated with individual verifiable activities using a computer-aided experiment.