The National Kindergarten Curriculum provides a standard national framework within which all kindergartens should work to accomplish their educational goals. The curriculum has been appropriately changed to meet the needs of today, to conform to socia...
The National Kindergarten Curriculum provides a standard national framework within which all kindergartens should work to accomplish their educational goals. The curriculum has been appropriately changed to meet the needs of today, to conform to social change and to promote the development of young children. The purpose of this study is to analyze how and how much teacher(performer of curriculum) and young child(object of performance) factors have been reflected on curriculum change. The study method is to review and analyze the curriculum acts of the Ministry of Education and literatures containing curriculum change. The result of this study are as follows : In kindergarten curriculum acts, factors like child interest and needs, development level and individual variation, learning characteristics, etc. have been reflected variously from the beginning till today. The teacher factors like autonomy and specialty are continuously found in the operation of kindergarten curriculum from the beginning. Also it showed that the teachers have participated from the 3rd curriculum development process to a certain extent. It was difficult to study the 1st and 2nd curriculum development process due to lack of data.