This study, 'A study on the development and implementation of korean model of economic education for the era for Globalization and knowledge-Based Economy' has been pursued for three years(2003. 09-2006. 08). The purpose of this study was to explore a...
This study, 'A study on the development and implementation of korean model of economic education for the era for Globalization and knowledge-Based Economy' has been pursued for three years(2003. 09-2006. 08). The purpose of this study was to explore a new korean model of economic education, content standards, teaching-learning method, and assessment and to apply them to the classroom. The study contents are as follows.
The first-year study was a pilot research toward achieving the final purpose of this study. It aimed to provide a basic frame of reference to develop a new economic education at schools, which helped promote historical understanding of the changes for the economic education at schools as well as helped deduce educational implication in the knowledge-based economic era through international comparison.
The second-year study was a research on the development of curriculum in accordance with the korean model of economic education developed in the first-year study. It attempted to develop economic education curriculum together with teaching-learning method, both of which are required by the new era.
The third-year study was a series of studies required to complete the development of the economic education model in the era of knowledge-based economy. It attempted to make teaching-learning method to specify economic education curriculum together with criteria for evaluation, and to apply them to educational fields. In addition, it aimed at constructing data base consisting of the three-year project findings.
What follows are a summary of the meaning of the study, method of utilization, and implications of the study.
First, this study is meaningful in that it was not a episodic, theoretical research but a grand, systemized one combining the principles, objectives, contents, teaching-learning methods, and assessment methods at the same time.
Second, our research results including the korean model of economic education and curriculum go further than putting merely together existing research results. It provides a frame of reference to evaluate current curriculum and classroom teaching, combing real-world teachers' demand, experiments, delphi method, expert consultation, and what not.
Third, our research results can be used to better economic education contents, establish new curriculum, provide basic data for teaching-learning materials including textbooks, and guide teaching-learning method and evaluation. In addition, it can be utilized as a fundamental data for a revision of the next economic education curriculum for elementary, middle, and high schools.
Fourth, this study went further than merely suggesting cases and evaluation questionnaires, and applied them to classroom situation. As such, the fact that this study applied the teaching syllabi and evaluation questionnaires and recommended ideas for improvement can be an asset in the process to better economic education at schools.
Finally, this study recorded all the results into CDs and supplied them on the web, providing data for future research. Therefore, all the related people including teachers at schools, economic researchers, social studies theorists, economists, and curriculum developers are now able to easily access useful data.