교육과정 연구의 포괄적 성격 탐색 - 교육과정에 대한 비판적 연구 방법의 정립을 위한 하나의 논의 - = A Study on the Tripartite Nature of Curriculum Inquiry

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This study deals with the question, how curriculum research is to be characterized in order for it to inform curriculum practice? It presupposes that two dominating methods of curriculum inquiry, quantitative and qualitative methods which have been long regarded as being in opposition or isolated from each other, could not inform the curriculum practice. This study is composed of three parts. First, I proposed that three different approaches to inquiry should be reconciled in addressing curricular problems. The proposition was justified on the basis of Habermas`s three different human cognitive interests, such as technical, practical, and emancipatory ones. In the domain of curriculum, the following three research methods - quantitative, qualitative, and critical inquiry - are to be reconciled in order to have any relevance to the practicality of curricular problems. Second, I analyzed how those research methods were to be reconciled on a practical level. The factual knowledge, which is to be acquired through quantitative research, functions as a springboard for qualitative research, and both factual knowledge and interpretive knowledge obtained by qualitative research become the materials into which critical inquiry can be done, thereby three research methods being interrelated in addressing curricular problems. Third, as a way of showing the validity of the argument presented thus far, I have applied the tripartite model of curriculum inquiry into the popular topic of curriculum differentiation. Through the application, I tried to show three different dimensions of the practice of curriculum differentiation, each dimension demanding respective research topics and research methods. I ended the writing with the conclusion that curriculum research could inform curriculum practice only if three different approaches to inquiry are to be reconciled in addressing curricular problems on a practical level