국가 교육과정 개정 담론의 비교 분석(1): 제 4차에서 제 7차에 걸친 교육내용의 적정화 담론을 중심으로 = A Comparative Study on the Reduction Discourses of Educational Content in the 4th to 7th National Curriculum R & D Reports

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is to analyze comparatively the reduction discourses of educational content of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th national curriculum R & D reports and to suggest some directions for the future curriculum R & D efforts. Indeed, reduction discourses of educational content has been reappeared each time of national curriculum revision as one of important curriculum reform guidelines for the past 20 years in Korea. First, in this study, the researcher tried to summarize the characteristics of reduction discourses of educational content from the four different national curriculum R & D reports. Second, the researcher tried to identify changing tendencies of the reduction policies of educational content during the four-revision period and to infer from the comparative analysis some directions for future policies for the reduction discourses of educational content. Second, on the basis of the research findings, the researcher suggested that firstly the specific guidelines rather than general ones for the reduction of educational content should be provided, that secondly the task of educational content reduction should be deliberated on by both general curricularists and subject specialists together, that thirdly need assessments for the reduction of educational content should be periodically implemented to the parents and students. Lastly, the researcher ended with the strong recommendation that, unlike the past efforts where the R & D participants tried to reduce the necessary subjects students must take per semester and core content for all students on the national level, new efforts should be made in order to give the school more latitude to provide selective subjects and content areas on the one hand and to provide students the right to choose the subjects and content areas on the other hand for the direction of curriculum diversification and relevance.