초등학교 5학년 학생을 위한 다문화교육 프로그램 실행 연구: 인권, 반편견·반차별교육을 중심으로

Abstract

This study starts from the idea that getting students to acquire multicultural awareness is more important than providing adjustment education to multicultural students for the healthy multicultural society in Korea. The aim of this study is to observe educational changes of students, to present one method of multicultural education for the upper grades, and to suggest better ways of multicultural education.. Nowadays, Korea rapidly becomes multicultural society. Also, students who are differ from race, gender, religion, etc. live together in school. In these situations, multicultural education is required to get along with them. However, lacks of textbook, material and program for multicultural education make teachers be indifferent to practice this education. So, this program was developed and applied to 5th graders and the goal of this program is that students can adapt the changing society and learn how to respect others from different culture and race groups. In this study, multicultural education was practiced in two ways: Human rights and Anti-bias. Human rights education was practiced in first semester to have students get a concept and awareness of human rights. It was followed by the anti-bias education, which was carried out in second semester to have students be aware of diversity, bias and discrimination. To educate the students in the human rights and the anti-bias effectively, three programs were developed and twenty-six students at an elementary school in Daejeon participated in this study for 1 year. The result of the study is as follows. After the students had participated in this program, they got a concept of human rights and they could recognize their own bias and discriminate behaviors. Also they tried hard to decrease them. Based on the results of this study, the following suggestions are made. First, human rights education plays a key role in multicultural education. Second, multicultural education should be started from the lower grades in elementary school. Third, the text book for multicultural education is needed for systematic and long term education.