Our society is changing rapidly into a digital knowledge and information paradigm. And today``s schools are required to teach students creativity and character education rather than remote memory of simple facts and knowledge. For this reason, in orde...
Our society is changing rapidly into a digital knowledge and information paradigm. And today``s schools are required to teach students creativity and character education rather than remote memory of simple facts and knowledge. For this reason, in order to educate students for the future society, 2009 national school curriculum has emphasized creativity and character education, and introduced Creative Activity Curriculum(CAC) as an extra curricular activity. On this background, this study tries to investigate the implementation practices of Creative Activity Curriculum in elementary schools. After discussing the basic objectives and official curriculum guidelines of Creative Activity Curriculum, this study analyses practical creative activity programs of several elementary schools. As a result, schools display no significant differences in the sub activities of creative activity curriculum -the autonomous activities, the club activities, the volunteer activities, and the career activities. And also the school programs show similar results in the proportions and distribution of creativity and character factors. Among the various factors of creativity and character education, ``problem solving ability`` for creativity and ``responsibility`` factor for character education are mostly emphasized in the programmes. At the last part, this study discusses several shortcomings in the practices of creative activity curriculum in elementary schools, and suggests several points for better practices of creative and character education.