남？북한 초등학교 과학 교과서 생물영역 내용 및 생물명 비교 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare the biology parts of the elementary school science textbooks of South andNorth Korea. For this purpose the contents and the names of organism introduced in the textbooks are compared andanalyzed. As results of this study, there are a lot of diferences in the content and names of organism in thetextbooks. Life science in the elemenatry school science of North Korea (46.9% in 3th grade, 32.7% in 4th grade) istreated more seriously than South Korea. The most part of North Korea textbooks are occupied with the names andof total contents of elementary school science of South Korea. Also only 39 names of organism are introduced in theboth textbooks of South and North Korea. For the science curriculums establishment after unification, it should bethe most important efforts to understand the cause of these diferences, and to analyze those diferences in contentsand organisms introduced in the textbooks of South and North Korea.