A proposed Curriculum in Home Economics Based on Requirements of The Fourth Industrial Revolution to Develop Future Skills and Creative Productivity for the Vocational Preparatory School Students

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Home Economics-Helwan University

2 Home Economics- Helwan University

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the effectiveness of a proposed curriculum in home economics based on the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to develop future skills and creative productivity for first-grade students in vocational preparatory school . The experimental research sample consisted of (45) female students. The research used the quasi-experimental approach using one group, and usage of pre and post measurement of the research tools for the same group. The research tools included a scale of future skills and included six skills (scientific thinking and problem-solving skills, pluralism cultural, technology of information and communication culture, accepting technological change culture, ambitious and perseverance, social intelligence), and testing creative productivity skills, which consisted of (productive ideas fluency, productive flexibility, productive ideas originality), and a measurment of estimating a creative product. The search results reaches the following:

There is a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the students of the research sample in the pre and post applications of the future skills scale, the creative productivity skills test , and the creative product estimation scale in favor of the post application, and the effect size was massive and this related to the application of one unit of the proposed curriculum, and it became clear that there was a direct correlation relationship between future skills and creative productivity.

Keywords: Requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Future Skills - Creative Productivity.

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