STS education, which started in 1960's and became the worldly science educational stream in 1980's. The STS education began to be reflected in the textbook concretely in the 5th Educational Curriculum of Korea that was reformed and notified in 1992. T...
STS education, which started in 1960's and became the worldly science educational stream in 1980's. The STS education began to be reflected in the textbook concretely in the 5th Educational Curriculum of Korea that was reformed and notified in 1992. The present study was designed to discuss the STS educational history, characteristics, and reflection in the educational curriculum of Korea.
Specially, this study classified the contents related to STS in the Biology Unit of the 8 kinds of high school authorized Common Science Textbook compiled on the basis of the 6th Educational Curriculum. The research compared how much such contents each textbook contains and which subject area of Piel the contents of STS education in each textbook belong to, and then analyzed which STS subject area is reflected in each biology unit.