In these days, design is considered a key industry that affects a country’s economy in a considerable manner. Seoul Education Office added new subjects regarding designing in 2010 the 7th national education curriculum. Middle school and high school ...
In these days, design is considered a key industry that affects a country’s economy in a considerable manner. Seoul Education Office added new subjects regarding designing in 2010 the 7th national education curriculum. Middle school and high school students can choose to take a designing class so that they can develop their overall abilities to think through the creative designing classes which is not the subject art teaching nothing more than simple painting or drawing. In results, elementary schools have developed a textbook, teacher education, design contents and established an institution regarding designing class development in 2010. Like this, the importance and necessity of elementary schools’ designing curriculum are considered. However, the textbook is used for creative experience programs. Therefore, schools are developing their own curriculum in accordance with their policies and environments. Moreover, only the curriculum regarding third and fourth grades are suggested. The way to develop the students’ abilities concerning their cognitive development stage had not been developed well. As the importance and necessity of design curriculum in elementary schools increase and the curriculum are expected to be a part of the national educational policy, setting appropriate level of difficulty, textbooks and effects are also necessary to be studied. Therefore, this research aims at suggesting and verifying the design textbooks that are going to help the students’ development. Moreover, this will be done by regarding the cognitive developmental stages of the students in third and fourth grades based on the theory of cognitive development and analyzing the curriculum.
Having studies of the theories of cognitive development as bases, this research arranged the theories of cognitive development of the elementary school students in third and fourth grades. Moreover, we looked at the cases and realities of the elementary schools’ design curriculum and the design teaching tools. As a domestic case, the curriculum suggested by Korea Institute of Design Promotion was verified if they considered the cognitive developmental stage. Also, this research suggested CLAF analysis frame for child cognitive developmental levels that can organized the design curriculum of the third and fourth grades. In addition, the textbook(equipment) to be applied for the cognitive developments appropriate for the grades was suggested. We educated students using the suggested equipment and analyzed their brainwave to see the relations of the class equipment and the cognitive developments of the students. In results, we drew a conclusion of the guidelines to help the appropriate cognitive developments for the third and fourth grades in elementary school. This research is meaningful in suggesting and separating the design curriculum and design teaching tools, in accordance with to the theory of cognitive development. Moreover, we tried to verify the real educational effects and concluded that the design teaching tools can affect positive effects to children. Also, we hope the researches and datas followed after this research are developed so they can suggest appropriate design development paths and application to develop design educational design teaching tools.