창의적 과학 영재 육성을 지향한 한국과학영재학교(KSA) 운영 10년의 성찰과 전망

Abstract

Since the proclamation of special law for promoting gifted and talented education in 2000, there were a big step to establish the first high school for the gifted in science. On 2002, Ministry of Education decided to transform the Busan Science High School as the first Gifted high school in Korea, named the Korea Science Academy(KSA). It is recognized that openning a new type of school in Korea can be a catalyst to stimulate schools moving toward creativity and student-centered education. In the past 10 years, KSA have made so many efforts to provide appropriate educational services coping with gifted students’ dynamic learning challenges. As a result of successive trials to set up a futuristic gifted education model, KSA has initiated many reformative programs for the gifted in science, for instance, a customized mentoring program called Research & Education(R&E), introduction of project-based and integrated subject, etal. This study tried to review the brief history of educational practices of gifted high schools in Korea, including educational services and its social impacts during the last ten years. Based on some implications through such reflections on gifted education for the science, this study suggested twelve tasks which every gifted high school for the science in Korea should have attention and make efforts to accomplish for the future.