Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to review the trend of research in geographical education since the launching of the Korean Geographical Society in 1945 and to suggest the areas and directions for future oriented research in geographical education. 422 articles (including 12 books) were reviewed and analized for this paper. The outputs of research in geographical education contributed in developing and improving the geographical education in primary and secondary school geography. But to achieve stable and desirable status as a subject in the school curriculum, research in geographical education has to be changed in its target areas and methods. The results and the suggestions of this study are summarized as follows: First, research in geographical education in diverse areas, especially in the areas of significance, aims and objectives, and psychology of geographical education should be preceded the revision of the school curriclum so that the results could be used as the basis information and evidences in decision making about the curriculum. Second, research in geographical education for affective domain and skill development should be implemented more actively in accordance to the trend of integration centering around the dicipline-inquiry skill and citizenship skill. More close relationship between the circles of geographical education and geography would be one of the ways to satisfy the social needs. Third, the linkage between primary and secondary school geography is crucial to the research in geographical education. Considering the sequence in human development research in geographical education for two levels of school should be conducted in more wide school-year span. Fourth, critical and prescriptive research in geographical education focusing on the individual, diciplinary, and social relevancy of the content of geographical education may be recommended. Finally, the outputs of the research in geographical education should be publicized more widely so that the rationale for justification of subject geography and geographical education may be shared with among the researchers, educational administrators, and practioners.
대한지리학회 창립 이후 우리 나라의 초.중등 학교 지리교육 개선에 기여하기 위 하여 산출된 연구업적을 검토함으로써, 기왕의 지리교육 연구의 성과와 미흡한 점을 파악하 고 미래지향적인 지리교육연구의 방향을 설정하여 보고자 하였다. 우리 나라의 지리교육 연 구는 그동안 양과 질의 양 측면에서 큰 발전을 이룩하였으며, 특히 여섯번의 교육과정이 새 롭게 개정되는 과정에서 지리교과의 위상을 유지, 발전시키고 현장의 지리교육을 개선하는 데 기여한 바가 매우 크다. 그러나, 우리 나라의 지리교육이 보다 발전되고 안정된 위상을 정립하기 위한 연구의 방향으로서는 지리교육의 성격, 문제점 및 개선방안 영역과 지리교육 목적.목표, 지리교육 심리영역에 대한 연구 중심, 연구영역 전반에 걸친 세분화와 전문화, 정의적 영역과 기능적 영역 그리고 초.중등의 연계성에 대한 고려, 더욱 증진된 지리학과 지리교육간의 협조관계의 수립을 통한 지리교육 언어개발, 지리교육 내용의 적합성에 대한 비판적 연구를 위한 노력이 필요하다.