This study was to identify the problems of practical arts subject and to suggest improvement plan in terms of curriculum sequence from elementary school to high school in Korea. In order to organize sequentially practical arts subject matter from ele...
This study was to identify the problems of practical arts subject and to suggest improvement plan in terms of curriculum sequence from elementary school to high school in Korea. In order to organize sequentially practical arts subject matter from elementary school to high school, the study suggested as follows : (1) In elementary school, practical arts should be begun from the third school year instead of from the fourth school year. (2) In middle school, industrial technology and home economics should be taught to boys and girls throughout all the school year, and existing vocational subjects(agriculture, industry, commerce, fishery, and household work) need not be taught any more as independent subjects. (3) In high school, the existing curriculum, consisting of the selection of one subject in industrial technology or home economics and the selection of one subject among vocational subects, can be acceptable. (4) The name of subject matter should be changed by reflex the term of `technology` as a key concept of practical arts subject matter according to school grade.