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Analyses and Comparison of Science Content on Education for Sustainable Development in Middle School Science Curriculum (중학교 과학과 교육과정에 제시된 지속가능발전교육 내용 분석 및 비교)

  • Oh, Yoon-Jeong;Choi, Kyung-Hee
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.89-104
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    • 2012
  • This study analyzed content on education for sustainable development in middle school science curriculum of $6^{th}$, $7^{th}$, 2007-revised and 2009-revised. Analyses criteria were developed based on literature reviews. This study developed 8 criteria such as health, climate change, urbanization and rural development, water, biodiversity and ecosystem, energy, disaster reduction and management. The results showed that 6th middle school science curriculum has 4 criteria, $7^{th}$ has 2 criteria, 2007-revised has 8 criteria, and 2009-revised has 7 criteria. This study suggests the need for developing systemized teaching material on education for sustainable development that can be integrated in the science curriculum by pursuing the following tasks: First, the goal of education for sustainable development and its need should be stated in the science curriculum. Second, the class content, themes, objectives, teaching-learning programs on education for sustainable development should be produced. Third, within science curriculum, the content should deal with perspectives and topics, and learning goal must pursue value education.

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Analysis of Changes in Home Management Part in Home Economics Textbooks for Middle School (교육과정 시기에 따른 중학교 가정교과서 가정관리분야 단원의 변천과정 분석 (I))

  • 이연숙
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.73-91
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the changes in home management part in the home economics textbooks for middle school from the 1st to the 7th curriculum period. The part of home management in the all of home economics textbooks published in every curriculum period was analyzed using several external criteria of textbook. The major findings of this study were as follows : 1. The part of home management was divided into even specific areas including 'definition and process of home management'. 'time management'. 'household labor/work management'. 'family financial management'.'purchasing'. and 'consumer protection'. 2. The part of home management has been included in the middle school home economics textbooks since the 1st curriculum period. The proportion of this part in the whole textbook varied with range from 5.1% to 31.8%. 3. The areas emphasized in the beginning of curriculum period were 'family financial management'and 'household labor/work management'. and 'utilization of family resource and environment management'were the areas emphasized in the later curriculum period. 4. The titles of the middle and small unit have begun to use recent words and have represented the including contents since the 4th curriculum period. 5. The numbers of illustrations. tables. pictures. and activities have increased since the 6th curriculum period. 6. Other unrelated areas such as computer and career preparation were included in the home management part in the 1st. 2nd. and 5th curriculum period.

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A Study on Probability and Statistics Education in Middle School's Mathematics Textbooks in Korea

  • Jang, Dae-Young;Park, Yong-Beom;Lee, Hey-Young
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.337-356
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    • 2000
  • In Korea mathematics education of middle school has been taken according to the 6th national mathematics curriculum which was renovated by the Ministry of Education announcement in 1992. The eight middle school mathematics textbooks are composed of under this curriculum The education of probability and statistics has been carried out as a part of statistics education centering around middle school's mathematics textbooks.

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Health Education Curriculum Constructs and Dimensional Properties for Korean Middle School Students in Multidimensional Scaling Analysis (다차원척도법을 이용한 중학교 보건교육 교과영역 구축 및 속성 분석)

  • Park, Kyoung-Ok
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.7
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2006
  • Background: School is a primary health education setting for adolescents and the continuous support should be provided to renew school health education curriculum correspondent to cultural changes in Korean society. Objectives: This study was conducted to identify the principals and teachers' health education needs for their students and to analyze their conceptual map for health education curriculum at school. Methods: The sample size of the preliminary study was 321 of the teachers in elementary, middle, and high school, and that of the main study was 355 middle school principals and teachers over the country. The self-administered mailing survey was conducted to collect the available health education topics in the preliminary study, to identify the factor structure of the health education topics and to analyze the conceptual properties on health education with exploratory factor analysis and multidimensional scaling analysis in SPSS 12.0. Results: A total of 21 health education topics were collected from the preliminary survey and 31 topics were, comprehensively, generated for the main survey. In exploratory factor analysis, seven factors were generated in 1.0 or greater Eigen value standard. The seven factors were 'life health promotion,' 'disease prevention and drug control,' 'bulling and aggression prevention,' 'injury and sexual harassment prevention,' human-efficacy and regulation,' 'health protection for adolescence,' and 'alcohol and tobacco control.' The educational need scores were the highest in 'human-efficacy and regulation' and 'injury and sexual harassment prevention.' The two-dimensional cooperates were generated for the 31 health education topics and the two dimensional properties which divided the conceptual space were 'health-safety' for one and 'public/environmental-individual/personal' for the other. That is, middle school principals and teachers primarily, understand the health education curriculum in the sense of 'health vs. safety' and 'public/environmental vs individual/personal.' Conclusions: Health education curriculum and textbook should be developed based on teachers' needs and conditions for health education in school fields. The field-based health education programs or textbook would make more possible problem-solving health education for youth in real school fields.

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The Changes in Goals and Contents of Geography Education according to the Structural Change of Integration in the Korean Social Studies Curriculum: The Case of the Middle School (우리나라 사회과교육과정의 통합구조 변화에 따른 지리교육의 목표와 내용 변화: 중학교를 중심으로)

  • Park, Sunmee
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.935-955
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to analyze the changes of goals and contents of middle school geography education following up the changes in the Korean social studies curriculum over time. The main findings are as follows. First, From the Syllabus period to the Third Curriculum, geography education, history education, general social studies education in the middle school social studies were directed and managed independently. However from the 4th to the 7th Curriculum, the demand for the virtual integration in middle school social studies increased sharply. Since 2009 revision, social studies suffered an identity crisis as integrated subject matter because history education was separated from the social studies and interdisciplinary units were abolished. In spite of much criticism, however, an odd form of social studies integrating geography and general social studies still remains. Second, the stronger the demand for the social studies integration in middle school, students' social studies learning load had become heavier due to severe competition with other areas to ensure more portion in the integrated structure of social studies. Since geography education did not reflect the new tendency of the geography in the integrated structure of middle school social studies, the gap between the geography and geography education has increased and knowledges of geography growing became separated from students' experience. In conclusion, the integrated structure of social studies in the middle school hindered the geography education development as it limited the autonomy of geography education in terms of curriculum development.

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A Study on Spatial Layout Corresponding to Free Learning Semester Curriculum of Middle School (중학교 자유학기제 교육과정 운영에 대응하는 공간배치 대안 연구)

  • Kang, Hye-Jin;Jung, Jin-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2014
  • A total of 2,325 schools including all of the middle and high school have operated variation type since government announced the "Variation Type classroom System Promotion Plan" in May 2009. New education policy, free learning semester of middle school, was introduced after current government took office, followed by extended application of educational policy. Korean students have a low level of happiness and interest in the school due to admissions intensive competition and the investment memorize education and cramming education. Therefore, in consideration of youth development stage, free learning semester system introduction commitment was announced in November 2012, and free learning semester was operated by way of showing an example in 2013, and then expansion implementation plan of 2015 was established, because free learning semester introduction in middle school stage is increasing. This study considers concept and operation method to free learning semester of middle school which are newly introduced, based on the policy documents of Ministry of Education. Also, through the example of Japanese schools, this analyses creativity, personality, social skills, and healthy corresponding to a free learning semester curriculum of middle school, and present method to apply for Korea.

Development of a Software Education Curriculum for Secondary Schools

  • Kim, Seong-Won;Lee, Youngjun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.127-141
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    • 2016
  • With more emphasis on importance of software, many countries try to provide software education. Of course Korea includes informatics courses in 2015 revised curriculum, so that software education will be administered briskly in soon. However there are practical challenges including a lack of teaching hour in classes and the monotony of educational contents which occurs with that. To solve these problems, this research develop software education curriculum model that could be practically used for both middle and high school. First this study compare the curriculum of Korea to that of United States and United Kingdom. After analyzing the result, the curriculum model for middle and high school is developed. The curriculum model can be classified into three types, middle, high and advanced-high levels and include key concepts like collaboration and convergence, computational thinking, computing practice and programming, computers and communications devices, community, global, and ethical impacts. To assess the feasibility of our software education curriculum model, examination was made by expert group and a hearing was held by related researchers. Then the model was modified in a way that adjustable to Korea education system. This study provides some important guidances on designing a curriculum for software education at middle and high school. However, there still are difficulty adjusting to the elementary school and university course. To be able to further research, same kind of studies on elementary school and university course need to be done. Also, continuous modifications are required to reflect reality including technological advance, curriculum, and changes of education system.

Improvement Method through the Present Situation Analysis of Middle School Computer Education - On the Basis of Middle School in Busan Metropolitan City - (중학교 컴퓨터 교육의 실태 분석을 통한 개선 방안 - 부산광역시 중학교를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Yong-Il;Choi, Jae-Hyuk
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.13-26
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    • 2006
  • 5 years are passed since the 7th National Curriculum of Education began. The curriculum didn't get successful outcomes, rather brought about several problems. Especially, the computer curriculum didn't effectively deal with fast developing computer technology. In present, the general and overall problems of middle school computer education suggested in many previous researches. After we investigate general computer education problems which computer teachers and students are felt, we must try to reflect the results in computer education policy. In this paper, on the basis of general computer education problems suggested by previous researches, we absolutely analyzed the teacher's and student's question results about correct situation of middle school, and suggested improvement methods of middle school computer education.

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An Analysis of 7th Middle School Science Curriculum by Klopfer’s Taxonomy of Education Objectives -Focusing on 7th grade- (Klopfer의 교육목표 분류에 따른 제7차 교육과정의 중학교 과학 교육목표 분석 -7학년을 중심으로-)

  • Kim Sang-Dal;Lee Yong-Seob;Choi Sung-Bong
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.640-651
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    • 2005
  • This study was to analyze the subject objectives of Middle school 7th grade Science textbooks based on the Korean 7th curriculum by using Klopfer’s taxonomic system and find out how much compatible they were with the requiring objectives of the curriculum. Particularly, this study makes educational objectives for textbooks coherent wit the requiring objectives of the curriculum, through the analysing the problems. The results are follows. The Middle school science educational objective of the 7th curriculum sets up almost of the objectives through all of the domains of the Klopfer’s taxonomy system, except the operational function (Category G.0), and emphasizes on emotionable domain (Category $H.0\~I.0$) more. However, comparing with an encouragement objective rate of NSTA, Middle school Science textbooks based on the 7th curriculum were published putting more importance in a cognitive domain, and the intention objective (Category I.0) was not mentioned.

An Analysis of Professional Recognition on 2015 Curriculum Revision (2015 문·이과 통합형 교육과정 개정에 관한 전문가 인식 연구)

  • PARK, So-Young;LEE, Jeong-Ryeol;KANG, Hyeon-Suk
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.1172-1183
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this research is to analyze the recognition of the curriculum experts on 2015 integrated liberal arts and natural sciences curriculum revision. Research method is a delphi survey and the subjects are curriculum experts. The research results are as follows. Firstly, experts suggested common education for all students and students' opportunities to choose subjects. Secondly, the direction of curriculum revision was different by school level. The elementary school needs to foster convergence thinking. The middle school needs to educate common basic literacy education and the high school needs both the common education and the free choice of subjects by students. Thirdly, the separation of the liberal arts and natural sciences was caused by the separate thinking of custom, tradition and study and the separate exam application on liberal arts and natural science of college scholastic ability test. The solution about separation problem of liberal arts and natural sciences have been proposed to improve mathematics education and teachers' convergence education competency. Lastly, for the establishment of an 2015, integrated curriculum the reduction of the CSAT test area and the introduction of qualifying examination for English were required.