국가 교육과정 대강화의 방향과 과제: 교육과정 체제의 개정을 중심으로

Abstract

Direction and Task for Slimming the National Curriculum:Centered on Revision of Curriculum System The purpose of this study is to search the direction and task for epitomizing the national curriculum. Nowadays we have encounter a growing argument about the nature of the national curriculum and revision of curriculum framework. The national curriculum should be core and systematic to a various of subjects and levels. In Korea, curriculum revision has been focused on subject organization and time allocation on the basis of viewpoint of the general-specific. Now the national curriculum need to be restructured into standard and epitome. There are many critics about the nature of national curriculum in the line of conception of subjects framework and domain-specific content standards. The issue about slimming for the national curriculum is organized into the meaning, pattern, method, and foreign cases etc. The conception of slimming the national curriculum reside in basic principles and eitome of national curriculum. Furthermore the pattern of slimming the national curriculum is divided into form/ content, and quantatative slim/ qualatative fit. We can say the method for slimming the national curriculum by way of various means. We should pay attention to the direction and task for epitomizing the National Curriculum on the basis of reflexible planning of curriculum and school-based curriculum autonomy. In the future the national curriculum functions as the guideline and basic principles through establishment of content standards, performance standards and benchmarks.