학교교육에서의 디자인교육의 본질과 내용에 대한 재고 - 초등학교 디자인교육을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The key word in the modern society focuses on the creativity. The demand of these times - the nurture of creative talent across the educational world is highlighted. As this trend has been recently incorporated, the design education based on the design thought has been recognized to be very effective to improve creative and integrated thinking abilities. The necessity and meaning of the design education is being magnified. Under the assumption that design should be educated from childhood that has strong intellectual capacity and curiosity, this study was conducted to reconsider the essence and content of design education focusing on elementary schools,examine the problems of current design education based on the result, and find how to implement the elementary school design education in the future. The design education in the past was mostly concentrated in higher education to nurture design specialists. In elementary and secondary schools, the fine art education, one of basic curriculums, has been limited in expression activities regarding visual design such as adornment and making. However, in order to cultivate creative talent corresponding to the modern society, the design education method centered to a thinking process based on the essence of design is urgently required. In order to materialize this issue,the continuous research and review for systematization and institutionalization of design education in schools are required. Further, the new systematic design education system including the purpose and content of design education being proposed in the current education process needs to be established. To achieve this, the design education emphasizing on design process, and the systematic and structural education content applying the principle of design as a problem finding learning, and various curriculums are first required to be concretized.