TECHNICAL /TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND SOCIALIZATION

One of the problems for us today in the developing countries is how to satisfy our basic needs and continuously tackle the tasks involved in securing the essentials of modern life in a changing and technological world. In order to survive, man must share some of the sentiments, traditions and values of the group in which he finds himself. If a human body could be taken away at birth from the mother and raised in a complete isolation, such an individual would lack the essential attributes of a human being. It is the fact of living together that makes man truly human, for man is by nature a social animal. Thus, man must live and grow up among his fellow men in a given group: family, school, village, town, state, nation or generation. The task of making an individual fit in and play his part in modern society is the concern of technical education and socialization. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the role of technical/technological education and socialization. It seeks to define technological education and socialization and to study the relationship between them. It describes the codes involved in the socialization of technology education.