국가수준에서 개발된 교육과정의 실행 양상에 대한 이해 -초등학교 국어과 사례를 중심으로- = An Understanding of National Curriculum Implementation in School Levels -The Case of Korean Language Course-

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The 7th revised national curriculum in Korea has been recently introduced to schools. One of the major changes found in the revised national curriculum is to introduce `in-depth and supplementary differentiated curriculum` in some subject matters. The purpose of this study is to examine how `in-depth and supplementary differentiated curriculum` is being implemented in school levels. In more detail, the aims of the study are to: 1) Examine some theoretical views, fidelity and mutual adaptation, that can be employed to understand the actual implementation of the national curriculum in class levels. 2) Analyse some national curriculum documents, such as the general guidance of the national curriculum, Korean language curriculum and Koran language textbooks, in order to identify the formal intention of the government. 3) Explore how teachers implement the national curriculum in class levels. To achieve the purpose of the study, teaching cases in the classroom gathered from five elementary school teachers are analysed. For the analysis of the cases, self reports and interviews are adopted. The result found in the study largely indicates that teachers tend to adapt the national curriculum to fit classroom situations such as learning competency, students` interests and teachers` theory in practice. It is suggested that a view of mutual adaptation needs to be taken into account significantly in developing and evaluating the national curriculum.