중등학령기 다문화가정학생 학업 및 학교적응 사례 분석 - S중학교를 중심으로

Abstract

As the number of students from multicultural families who entered middle and high school has increased, the interest in educational problems of middle school students from multicultural families has been growing. They’re emotionally sensitive adolescent compared with preschoolers and elementary school students and had difficulties in academic achievement and school adjustment due to problems of Korean education system as well as personal and emotional reasons. Therefore, the study aimed to examine case about the academic work and school adjustment of the middle school students from multicultural families and analyze problems. The research findings showed that the middle school students from multicultural families had several difficulties in the academic work and school adjustment. They can be summarized as follows. First, the Korean fluency was important element in the academic work and school adjustment for the students from multicultural families. Second, the students from multicultural families relatively followed well, especially subjects with low dependence in Korean such as math, science and art, music and physical education when taking lesson of general subjects. However, they found it difficult to learn the subjects that place great emphasis on understanding Korean society and culture such as Korean language, Korean history and society. Third, they have built relationship with other similar students from multicultural families. Fourth, they relied on teachers a lot for the school adjustment.