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Industrial Arts Curriculum Project (IACP) Kevin Yahn TED 502 State University College at Oswego Fall 2003 Introduction The Industrial Arts Curriculum Projects also known as the (IACP) holds arguably the most significant impact on the field of Technology Education as we know it today. In a time when Industrial Arts education was still under the cloud of its manual training base, the Industrial Arts Curriculum Project sought to bring the field into the classification as the other core liberal subjects. The project was based on learner knowledge, in which it prepared youth for a society that was very largely shaped at the time by industrial technology. This project was designed as two-one year courses to be taught at the junior high school level. The IACP used not only the beliefs of its directors, but was heavily influenced by the input of leaders in both the manufacturing and construction industries. At the time, the field of industrial arts held no common ground in the curriculum from school district to school district, yet the standards that were in place were simply outdated and were hard to differ from manual training. The IACP sought to produce a common curriculum for all school districts to follow, and using its broad industry based curriculum it sought to bring industrial arts into the liberal core of the junior high school level. Having it hold the same type of liberal education as English, Math, Science or Social Studies classes would. In this paper, it is the intention of the author to provide the reader with an overall significance of the Industrial Arts Curriculum Project to the field of Technology Education as it stands today. There were many reasons behind the implementation of the IACP, which needed to be resolved in order for future survival of the field. This project was a large group effort in which many school districts participated and thus made the project possible. All of the participants