재외 한국학교 초등 과정의 교육과정 편성·운영 실태 분석 및 개선 방안 탐색

Abstract

Quality education for overseas Korean students through the substantiality of operatingschool curriculum has very important meaning regarding today’s increasing number ofstudents in overseas Korean schools. In order to derive implication for the improvement ofschool curriculum, this study, focusing on elementary school level, analyzed the state ofelementary school curriculum organization and the responses from the total 326 teachersby a survey of teachers in all overseas Korean schools. Based on the results of theanalysis, this study offers the following three suggestions: first, regarding that theinstructional hours of all levels of overseas Korean elementary schools were highlyincreased beyond the standard instructional hours provided by the national curriculum andthe educational trend of overseas Korean schools is to focus on foreign languageeducation for the global world, it is recommended that schools have autonomy to decidethe extent of increasing the instructional hours rather than the government sets an upperlimit on the increase; second, identity education as Koreans, which is one of the mostimportant portions of overseas Korean schools’ education, should be actualized by variousapproaches including education of related subjects and activities rather than limited toeducation of particular subject such as morals; and third, teacher training program for2015 revised curriculum should be provided to in-service teachers working for overseas Korean schools through changing the program into the suitable type for the overseasKorean schools’ situations and also to future teachers appointed to those schools. Analysis of the realities of overseas Korean schools' curriculum focused on thenational curriculum of foreign country is required in follow-up study. Also, educationalsupports for the elementary school students of overseas Korean schools should be focusedon the learning by meaningful involvement of students regarding the work load ofstudents.