Technology and design education in European Union harmonization process

We are living in a globalizing world where the mass media becomes widespread and the economic, cultural and politic borders between the world societies disappear. In such a society, the biggest part is taken by technology. In our century, catching up with the era is closely related to technology. Countries that are aware of this fact make great efforts to grow up generations who can not only use the technology, but also create it, propose practical and rationalist solutions for the problems they encounter, who know how to think and who can question the facts, and obtain different standpoints. In order to achieve this, they introduce the technology culture to their students at the early years of their education. In this way, it gets easier for individuals that are grown with a technological culture to view situations through different perspectives, gain problem-solving ability, develop practical solutions and create technological designs, that is, in summary, to keep up with the times and not to get out of date.This study introduces technology education which is acknowledged to be essential in order to provide all these advancements. Also an analysis is made on Technology Education approches especially in the United States of America, in the EU countries that have made great progress in their efforts to achieve the USA educational standards, and in Turkey. The aim of the study is to examine the situation of technology education and the related programs in our country that makes efforts for entrance to the EU, in the USA and the EU countries, and to reveal the differences by comparing the programs in Turkey with the programs in others.