NTA i teknikundervisning : En studie om tekniklärares tankar om teknikämnet och NTA.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to investigate the technology teacher attitude toward the subject of technology and link this to the use of NTA (Science and technology for all) in the primary school (graders 4-6) technical education. As Teknikforetagen (2006) stress in their report, the subject seems to be an undisclosed topic that often is combined with the science subjects. There, the science-orientating subjects get a higher priority than the technology. According to several reports, NTA has had a positive result in the teaching it is aimed at. The method of study is a qualitative survey consisting of interviews with middle school technical teachers. The interviews consisted of both technical teachers who use NTA in education and technology teachers without NTA. The result shows that NTA contributes to more practical work in technology, that teachers save time collecting materials, but also that collegial learning in technology increases. Overall, none of the interviewed teachers uses a textbook as support in the teaching. It differs from many other subjects in elementary school. The interviewed teachers generally have a positive attitude towards the subject of technology.