Special education in Korea have been establishing special education besides institution which treats relative service such as speech therapy and various treat specific handicaps like blindness and retardation. The number of thesis continuously increas...
Special education in Korea have been establishing special education besides institution which treats relative service such as speech therapy and various treat specific handicaps like blindness and retardation. The number of thesis continuously increases by doing research activities around these various institutions.
Since 1998 Korean Research Foundation has chosen possible registration or registration paper by evaluating each scientific journal on the purpose of domestic paper improvement. Evaluation of scientific journal is very important because it judges not only systemicity of scientific journal itself but also its academic specialty and value.
After the 1990s with special education researches accumulated researches which examine research tendency of relevant field and present future them have increased analyzing them introduced in each scientific journal. But when we look into previous research, researches which consider scientific journal's process relevant special education are not sufficient.
After the 1990s, as the research on the special education accumulated, researches that present future tasks which examine research tendency of relevant fields have been increasing. But when we look into the previous research, the researches that consider the process of scientific journal on relevant special education are not sufficient.
Therefore this research was founded for the first time in Korea, and analyzed the released research, 'Special Education Research', that is published by Korea Special Education Institution released scientific journal of special education the longest. To examine a research tendency of special education we analyze research object, subject and method divided period to prior to, possible and after registration in Korean Research Foundation.
From the first publishment in 1977 to 2008, analysis result of 835 theses is following.
First, researches for handicapped are mostly prior to registration but researches for handicapped and normal people are similar proportion to possible and after registration. Parents object researches of normal people are gradually increasing but compare to this, research on brothers and sisters’ raises its necessity of further research because there is only one research has shown.
Second, as the result of research that is divided by age group, researches placed much emphasis on middle children group. However, researches that are targeted various age group from infants to adults has tested since 1992.
Third, it shows that research on mental retardation announced mostly among the handicapped children in research category. Research on the blindness, hearing impairment, mental retardation, and developmental disorder hold the most portion of the research, however, handicapped categories are expanded by revising Special Education Promotion Law in 1994, 2005 and 2006. And after studies of the various disability categories were announced.
Fourth, results of researches subject show that researches on instruction take the most part and researches on disorder characteristic take the second most part. Since right before the registration in 1995 to possible registration, period of registration, various research subjects publish in balance.
Fifth, research methods of published research are various but they place too much emphasis on surveyable, documentary, experimental researches. Qualitative study methods have tried since prior to possible registration in 1998 and possible registration and after.
At last, each learned journals in special education develops competitive power by establishing relevant institution and publishing various learned journals and succeed in qualitative growth.
This thesis tries to examine a research tendency in scientific journals according to possible registration and period of registration. As the result, research shows that object, subject, and methods of the study gradually and variously change according to possible registration and period of registration. But this research has limitation that doesn't analyze whole special education so further study needs to study that have a matter whole learned journals in special education. Also source books must publish regularly such as a white paper that analyzes whole researches in special education and grasps developments and tendency.