국가 교육과정 연구 , 개발 체제의 문제점과 개선방향 - 제 7 차 교육과정 연구 , 개발 체제를 중심으로 = A Critical Examination of the Korean National Curriculum Research and Development System

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is to critically examine the Korean curriculum research and development system and to propose the future direction of curriculum R&D on the basis of a researcher`s experience and self-reflection of participating in the 7th national curriculum R&D. In the former part, this study proposes five major problems of the Korean national curriculum R&D system. First, design rather than deliberation is being emphasized in the national curriculum R&D process. Second, the curriculum R&D process is too much controlled by government officials in terms of the R&D period, money, and personnel. Third, there are too many discrepancies between general guidelines of the national curriculum and features of subject curricula. Fourth, prescription is being preferred to understanding in the R&D process. Fifth, there is a very hierarchical structure in the R&D system. In the latter part, this study proposes four basic principles of the national curriculum R&D in Korea on the basis of current R&D problems identified above. First, the R&D system should be more democratized by involving more persons in the R&D process. Second, the R&D system should provide more opportunities to deliberate over the major problems. Third, the R&D system should be changed to produce diversified curricula. Fourth, the R&D system should be simplified in order to make curriculum implementation more plausible. In conclusion, this study presupposes that an eclectic model of curriculum R&D system is better than an institutional model in which national curriculum is revised periodically and whole scale on the national level by government-led policies, and better than a romantic model in which national curriculum is revised constantly and gradually on the school level by teachers. Here, an eclectic model is regarded by a researcher as the synthesis of an institutional model (as thesis) and a romantic model (as antithesis).