The purpose of this study was to find a positive self-formational condition of students, and suggest a principle of devising curriculum for the students' maladjustment of students.
For the purpose of doing this, this study selected a public K alterna...
The purpose of this study was to find a positive self-formational condition of students, and suggest a principle of devising curriculum for the students' maladjustment of students.
For the purpose of doing this, this study selected a public K alternative reform school. Based on Carl Rogers' 'The theory of positive self-concept', employed participation observation, in-depth interviews and literature methods, the positive self-conception condition of students was analysed.
In this paper positive self-conception was divided and analysed into three subdivisions : social self, emotional self, and academic self, and succeeded in finding the formational conditions.
The research results are as follows :
First, this paper analysed relationships between teachers and students in order to find the social self-formational condition. As a result students and teachers were dealing with each other just officially. The power was among the students. Students were not forming relationships between their classmates.
Second, whether the students were observing the rules of the school, conscious of their goals after their graduation. The students lacked goals for the future when they entered the alternative schools. As it were, both of them were having identity problems. Because originally they chose the alternative school with the expectation that they may have easy school lives in the school, and teachers too threw up their hands.
Third, in relation to academic accomplishments, the class participation, the students lacked the goals and reasons of their studying, and the teachers were leading their classes at their conveniency, and were even letting the students know the questions of an examination in advance and take it.
When the students were sleeping in the class, the teachers did not interfere with it.
The teachers were habitually teaching the student regardless of the students' individual differences.
As shown above, the alternative school did not contribute to the self-formation of students in each aspect social, emotional, and academic.
The conditions for molding positive self-conception should be the basis of curriculum design principle in 'reforming Alternative School'.
On the foundation of this, alternative schools' curriculum plan theory for forming positive self-conception are as follows :
First, the aims of education in alternative schools should target the students' adjustment to the school. To achieve this goal, the aims of education should be created from the process of educational activities on the ground of exact understanding about alternative school students.
Second, it should be possible for the students to select learning experiences. And, experience learning focused on in-service training is more effective than theory- centered learning (to them). Also, learning experiences should be the ones which students can realize.
Third, the learning experiences should be framed to help the students' integrated thinking and to satisfy the students' needs. At the same time,
They has to be composed diversely in the horizontal and vertical.
Fourth, concerning the evaluation method, self-evaluation by the students themselves along with narrative evaluation is effectual.