초등 도덕과 교육과정의 변화와 과제

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to compare the current Moral Education curriculum with the past curriculum, to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of it, and to present the challenges and look toward improvement. The elementary moral education has undergone many changes including multi cultural society, the need for conflict resolution skill, refinements of virtue array, and reduction of educational content over 10 times change of curriculum. Despite these changes, several recommendations are needed. First, the system needs a transformation of the subject centered in the value system as future challenges. In selecting the core values, research and empirical evidence are required. Second, the materials need to be developed to guide the questioning of the teacher and the process of discussion in detail that can lead to students' moral reasoning skills. Third, there is a need to strengthen action-oriented character education and project learning based on the empirical results. Fourth, for the development of moral education textbook, bottom-up development by various agencies is needed. Also the refinement of mobile textbook is required for new technology generation. Finally, moral education should be cooperated with the home side and integrate the cognitive, affective and behavioral aspects of morality for the change of students' moral behavior.