남북한 ‘연소와 소화’ 단원 비교 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the units related to ‘combustion and extinguishing’ in North and South Korea. The subjects of the study are the ‘Burning’ unit for 5th graders in North Korean primary schools and the ‘Combustion and Extinguishing unit’ from two publishers that had high adoption rates in South Korean elementary schools. In this study, the density of educational content, the function of illustrations, and the type and level of inquiry were analyzed to compare the ‘combustion and extinguishing’ units of North and South Korea. The results of this study are as follows. First, North Korea had less experimental exploration than South Korea, and thus the overall educational contents was less. Second, compared to North Korea, South Korea had a higher density of educational content in units related to ‘combustion and fire extinguishing.’ Third, in the process of learning ‘Conditions of Combustion’, a common topic between North and South Korea, the complexity of the educational content in North Korea was higher than in South Korea. Fourth, North Korea had a high dependence on the painting illustration type, and South Korea had a high dependence on the photography illustration type. Fifth, illustrations in North Korean textbooks were highly dependent on the illustrative function, while illustrations in South Korean textbooks reflected not only illustrative functions but also explanatory and supplementary functions. In the analysis of the learning functions of illustrations, North Korea had a high ratio of motivation and data provision functions, and South Korea had a high ratio of activity guidance and concept explanation. Sixth, North Korea's exploration was highly dependent on discussion, debate, and experiment types, while South Korea reflected various types of exploration such as experimentation, making, investigation, and observation. In North Korea, the level of exploration activities was mainly completely closed and closed, while in South Korea, there were completely closed, closed, and open levels of exploration activities.