시각장애학교 사회과 교육과정 운영에 관한 교사인식 및 개선방안

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to boost the visually handicapped students' self-confidence on social studies curriculum at the time when the revised 7th curriculum is introduced by analyzing teachers' perception on the operation of social studies curriculum in school for the visually handicapped, the state of social studies learning and its evaluation methods, and its problems and the ways of improvement, and look for the direction, which the present social education can be more and more developed through the suitability of its education and the problems deduction of its education, by inquiring into the general state of social education to help the self-directed learning come. For this study, the research purposes were divided into four to distribute questionnaires in June on the visually handicapped social studies teachers. And the collected data were processed by the frequency analysis, multiple response analysis and cross tabulation analysis. The summary of the results is as follows. First, the teachers' perception on the operation of social studies curriculum in school for the visually handicapped showed that for the formal training experience, 71.4% of male teachers have received the formal training, and 85.7% of female teachers have never received it. For the subjects, which should be tightened up for students in school for the visually handicapped in the revised 7th curriculum, the ‘geographical area’ was the highest by 47.6%. And for the necessity of the change of educational environment, teaching contents and evaluation methods in the revised 7th social studies curriculum, 95.2% of teachers thought that they need the change. Second, the state of social studies teaching and learning and its evaluation methods showed that for the present social studies operating pattern, the ‘lecture pattern’ is the highest by 66.7%. For the instruction methods of textbook contents, the ‘instruction in addition to outside those contents as well as textbook contents’ was the highest by 38.1%. And for the difficulty related to the implementation of performance appraisal, the ‘lack of field conditions for the implementation of performance appraisal’ and ‘difficulty of basic skill diagnosis due to the performance appraisal operation focused on the tasks’ were the highest by 45.0%, respectively. Third, the improvement ways on the application of social studies curriculum showed that for the necessity of special school teachers' training chance for the application of social studies curriculum, 71.4% feel the necessity. And for the necessity of financial consideration of apparatus and materials supplies, which can make use of multimedia data, 90.4% thought they need financial consideration.