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Joel, Lebeaume – Journal of Technology Studies, 2004
In France, technology is a compulsory school discipline at the junior high school level (ages 11-15). Technology studies were initiated at the beginning of the 1960s when school attendance until the age of 16 became mandatory and when it was decided to delay vocational training because of the irreversible drive towards technical modernity, a…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technology Education