초등교육의 성격과 과제 = The Nature of Elementary Education: A Proposal for the Research Orientation

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

To ascertain the nature of elementary education should be started from understanding the practice of elementary education. Many researchers in the field of elementary education have tried to understand elementary education practice in various ways. For example, a group of researchers have tried to reveal the historical development of elementary education, to describe the relationship between teacher and student in the real classroom lesson, and to analyze the contents and aims of school subjects. It can be said that these important and plentiful researches draw and show the phenomenon-level of the practice of elementary education. If we aspire to understand the practice of elementary education concretely, we should pay attention to the inside of teaching practice. That is, we should explain the nature and development of mind which lies in the inside of the acquisition of knowledge. In contrast to the ‘phenomenon-level research’, this kind of research can be named as the ‘idea-level research’. As seen in the history of school education, educator's main task is teaching subject matter to their students. And, the educator's main task presupposes a special faith that learning subject matter can cultivate learner's mind. In this respect, investigating and revealing the relationship between teaching subject matter and cultivation of mind is researcher's real job of understanding the practice of education concretely.

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