과학교육진흥법의 변천

Abstract

The Science Education Promotion Act was legislated in 1967 in order to promote the science education. After legislation, the main department dealing with science education was organized in our government and that department built the national science education development plan and made a budget for science education. This act has clarified the differences between science and other subjects and played a role as legal base in science education policies. But its practical effects have declined due to deletion of clause about science education fund and science education council during many revisions until 2016. The purposes of this study were to organize the changes of this act systematically and to see the influences of this act on Korean science education in historical context. For those purposes this study organized the backgrounds, directions and contents on enactment and revisions of this act. Finally this study searched for the directions to strength the act in the future. For stronger and more practical act, it is necessary to revive the deleted clause about national science education council. Though that council, national interest in science education could be continued. Also it is necessary to insert the new penalty clause for violations like ‘Early Childhood Education Act’ or ‘Act on Special Education for the Disabled Persons, etc’. In historical context, science education, cultivation of individuals and economic growth were linked closely and cycled virtuously. When revision or alternative legislation could be taken place, it wishes that the Science Education Promotion Act would have to be changed more strongly in consideration of that how science education contribute to cultivate individuals leading the 4th industrial revolution.