The purpose of this paper is to recognize the problem with existing curriculum and to seek for the alternatives. The existing curriculum valued logical and rational thinking above everything else obstructing students for their overall development and ...
The purpose of this paper is to recognize the problem with existing curriculum and to seek for the alternatives. The existing curriculum valued logical and rational thinking above everything else obstructing students for their overall development and holistic growth along with an inordinate knowledge-centered, learning by rote education. In response to theses problems, many scholars including Bruner and Egan emphasized that emotional value should be considered no less than intellectual value in students` growth, and the education should assume the role. Regarding a story, it`s the most basic means for people to express and deliver their thinking. Especially, Egan developed a curriculum in where a story form is used to induce students` intellectual curiosity and to use their imagination and creativeness. The story form-based curriculum holds significance such as exceeding the limit of conventional curriculum which made much of separate course, learning fields and progressive curriculum which introduced only realities of life and offering a humanized curriculum which will enable the children to have motivation to sympathize and to want to learn through the stories which reflect well human intend, hope, emotion. The alternative curriculum model targets to deviate from the view of mechanical and passive attitude of teachers toward learners and to bring up the learners that able to communicate forming and constructing their own knowledge actively. In that aspect, story form-based curriculum model is an alternative for the present curriculum and a way it should head for.