The stabilization of the sequence of history education contributes to the desirable teaching and learning in elementary, middle and highschool. And it is correlated to important aspects of history education ; aims, contents and methods in history clas...
The stabilization of the sequence of history education contributes to the desirable teaching and learning in elementary, middle and highschool. And it is correlated to important aspects of history education ; aims, contents and methods in history classrooms.
Till now, the grater part of the discussion on the sequence of history education has been focused on korean history syllabus, especially to make distinction between the contents of syllabus in middle school and that in high school. And they carried out as the ground-making for national curriculum revision.
Recently, various theoretical researches have been fulfilled, and the outcomes are remarkable; a scheme for sequence of contents based on organized concepts, a plan which links aims and contents closely by stages. Futhermore, historical epistemology is illuminated seriously as theoretical basis of sequence in history education.
It is the time for conversion of basic ideas in the discussion on sequence of contents, from the definite method which premises the fixing subject and regular scope of curriculum, to the method of line up the series of history subjects by school levels. For this, it is essential to study about the aims of elementary, middle and high school history teaching.
The sequence also associated with the teaching methods and student’s activities in history classrooms. So the specific features of learner’s understanding about historical contents and the developmental process of it are to be very important aspect of research on the sequence of class room activities.
In the end, the point at issue is to systematize teaching and learning history in the schools by stages. And steady efforts to join elementary, middle and high school education as a whole -aims, contents, methods- is important the condition for the good discussions on the sequence.