초등학교 도덕과 교육과정의 변천과정에 나타난 도덕교육의 성격 고찰

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the change process of Korean elementary moral education curriculum based on 'the approach of moral education', and sheds new light on the meaning of moral education. The viewpoint of moral education in Korean elementary moral education curriculum changes from the bag of virtue's approach to intellectual approach, and to virtue ethics approach at the present day. Especially, moral education in virtue ethics approach which is appeared after the 7th National Curriculum shows an integrated viewpoint, which asserts the integration between moral activities or various virtues in everyday life and intellectual understanding or moral judgment, and emphasizes on exclusively practices as educational method. However, it is possible that moral education as subject-matter education will be ignored in the so called integrated viewpoint of virtue ethics approach. This is why that approach limits the meaning of practices as the methodological principle of moral education to moral practices in everyday life. According to A. MacIntyre, practices mean socially justified, coherent forms of human activities which has in themselves certain criteria of excellence, that is, arete. And he argued that practices includes not only moral practices but also natural science, arts, and so on. In this respect, we need to reexamine the meaning of moral education as subject-matter education based on 'practices'.