고등학교 교과서에 나타난 직업 관련 내용 분석

Abstract

This study aims to analyze occupational distributions and recognitions in textbooks tounderstand how textbooks describe occupation related content and suggest tasks forimprovement in developing and using textbooks in order for juveniles to cultivate a properoccupational view and acquirements in a school field. To analyze occupation-suggested content in textbooks, analytic area and a frame for textbookswere developed by literature analysis and a professional review. Curricula of 10 high schoolregular subjects were analyzed to select analytic objects, and 7 subjects, 16 kinds of textbooksthat presented content of ‘Work-Occupation Related Understanding & Selection’ on the character,aim and content of a curriculum were selected. Subjects selected contained Social Studies(3kinds), Economics(3 kinds), Law & Politics(1 kind), Society･Culture(3 kinds), Life & Ethics(2kinds), Technology & Home Economics(3 kinds) and Career & Vocation(1 kind). To understandthe content of each subject and ensure objectivity, this study organized 6 specialists consisted of4 high school teachers and 2 professors having experience in textbook analysis with specialtyand major for textbook content analysis taken into consideration. Firstly, in textbooks, the number of content suggesting occupations was 2,950, and diversityand description of occupational presentation tended not to correspond to the distribution of actualworkers. Secondly, the kinds of occupations suggested in textbooks are 1,140, taking up about10% of occupations suggested now in our nation's vocational dictionary. Thirdly, there wasdifference in recognition on occupations suggested in textbooks according to an occupationalcluster. Relatively, porofessions received more positive views whereas simple laborers receivedmore negative descriptions. Particularly, descriptions or cases to reinforce a distorted idea and bias against an occupation(employment) for students were found regardless of the intention of anauthor thus improvements are needed. This study gave suggestions for policies, compilations and follow-up researches based ontextbook analysis findings to improve textbooks for cultivating juveniles’ proper occupationalview and acquirements.