This study was attempted to offer the basic data required for composing a systemic education contents for health by analyzing the contents related to health education shown in the guidebook for teachers and the schoolbook for students of all grades in...
This study was attempted to offer the basic data required for composing a systemic education contents for health by analyzing the contents related to health education shown in the guidebook for teachers and the schoolbook for students of all grades in the current 7th education course for elementary school.
The objectives and data were totally 162 copies which were 90 copies of national schoolbook for 1∼6 grades and 72 copies of guidebook for teachers used in elementary schools in the 7th educational course.
The standards of selection for the contents related to health education including in each schoolbook were divided into 11 themes using the health care model suggested by Kim, Hwa Joong(1995) in the guidebook for health curriculum for elementary·middle·high schools.
The collected data were analyzed according to theme, grade, subject, the length of class, and were described as real number, percentage and the list of contents system.
The results of this study are as follows:
Firstly, the total hours of health education suggested in the 7th educational course for elementary school were 274 hours and it was 6.2% of the total class of 4,442 hours.
Secondly, the contents about health education were distributed into 9 subjects of The right livelihood, The wise livelihood, The cheerful livelihood, Korean, Morals, Society, Science, Physical education, and Practical course etc. Physical education had the most contents about health education and there was nothing in Mathematics, Music and Arts.
Thirdly, as for the composition according to the theme in health education contents, contents about health of regional society and environmental health were the most of 53 hours(19.3%), and contents about understanding of health were the least of 4 hours(1.4%).
Fourthly, contents included equally in every grades were those about safety and emergency response, health of home and society, health of regional society and environmental health.
Fifthly, differently from the 6th educational course, 7th educational course includes the contents about the health at home and in a society, has more about mental health, drug usage and abuse, safety and emergency response, but decreased the contents about understanding of health, supply of nutrition, training for physical strength, daily health life, precaution and care of disease.