To browse Academia. Over the past 25 years, Technology Education has been present in global curricula. It aims to prepare students to cope with the 21st Century where industrial and technological products dominate international economies.
Technology Education has been taught either as a separate subject or integrated with other subjects, particularly with Science, and has been perceived as an area of learning combining knowledge and innovation.
This paper identifies aspects of Technology Education which have been embedded in Science subjects in the Saudi curriculum and promotes the concept that it is now time for it to be developed as an independent subject, contributing to the reform of education for C21st learning in Saudi Arabia. This paper seeks to understand the perceptions of students from different institutes see Table 1 , and Science and Technology teachers in primary schools in the Almahd region about the nature of Technology Education.
The goal is to explore the notion of teaching Technology Education either as a separate subject or integrated within Science in Saudi primary schools. A quantitative approach has been conducted for this purpose, with two types of questionnaires for data collection involving students and science teachers. Participants have acknowledged the importance of teaching Technology in primary schools and have offered different perceptions of how this might be achieved.
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