초등 사회과 다문화 교육과정 및 수업안 개발 연구 = Development of Multicultural Curriculum and Lesson Plans in Elementary Social Studies

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The purpose of this study was to develop multicultural curriculum and lesson plans which can be implemented in elementary social studies instruction. At the first stage of this study, a content analysis was performed on multicultural education policies in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, multicultural curriculums and lesson plans, and several models of multicultural curriculum development. Based on a content analysis, multicultural citizenship was suggested as the primary goal of multicultural education. Multicultrual citizenship includes developing positive identity, recognition of and respect for cultural diversity and understanding diverse cultures in our society, prejudice and discrimination reduction, willingness to coexist peacefully. Five main content areas of multicultural curriculum are family, identity, culture·diversity·pluralism, prejudice and discrimination reduction, interdependence and co-existence. At the second stage of this study, collaborative action research was carried out to develope multicultural lesson plans. Multicultural media as like multicultural literature, drama, movie, news articles were mainly used when we designed multicultural lesson plans. We expect that the results of this study will improve the weak points in the existing national level social studies curriculum and make some contributions to revitalize multicultural education in elementary social studies classrooms.