2007, 2009 개정 교육과정에 따른 초등학교 사회과부도 구성 및 내용 비교 연구 -지리영역을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study compared the overall composition and content systems of the elementary school atlas,according to the revised curriculum in 2007 and 2009, with a particular focus on the geography contents. Thestudy results can be summarized as follows: As the current atlas changed to be bigger in size, a lot more relevantdata was printed. The data size increase is judged to help elementary school students to have more interest in andpay more attention to the atlas, compared to the previous atlas. Concerning quantitative composition by subjectdomain, the main text was greatly increased in terms of geography and history content, but the appendix wasrelatively decreased. In particular, the current atlas separately organized geography thematic map parts, unlike theprevious atlas: concreteness and utilization as learning data are enhanced by presenting various thematic mapsrelated to Korea and the world. The learning activity part enables self-driven learning by the students regardingmap learning and domestic and international human environments and natural environments, which were neglectedby the previous atlas. The appendix part seeks to be learner friendly by using general terms such as number ofpage, vertical row, and horizontal column, instead of geographical terms such as longitude and latitude that wereused by the previous atlas as the method to find place names. However, this part needs to be slightly revised andsupplemented in relation with the fact that higher graders (fifth to sixth graders) need to learn geographical termssuch as longitude and latitude. From the aspect of data composition, realistic photo data had been greatly expandedto enhance learning utility, and a more detailed guide to images related to various domestic and international areasand changed images, according to period, is presented in the figure and chart data. The map data shows manychanges, centered on general maps and thematic maps of Korea and the world. The map data, especially, reflectsaccurately recent changes in domestic and international situations, and the map scale has become larger overall. Also, map presentation by segmenting the Korean map and the world map by continent is a striking addition tothe previous atlas.