國民學校의 敎材植物

A Study on the Teaching Aid Botany of Primary School

For the purpose of exmining plants as teaching material that appeared throughout the whole curriculum of the elementary school, from both points of textual and botanical aspects, the whole textbooks have been analatically examined reaching the following results summarized : 1) Plants have appeared in the whole textbooks throughout the whole grades, the kinds of them numbering 213, the frequency of appearance being 2, 218 in total with severe overlappings; 2) The higher the grades, the more frequency, yet the new plants are evenly distributed, in their appearance, ranging from 20 to 30 kinds regardless of the grades, and with it the overlappings increasing; 3) The relationship between the frequency of appearance and the nature of teaching subjects is deep, resulting in 5 times more of learning knowledge for living than that for art and physical training; non-botanical subjects contain 3 times more of learning amount than that of botanical subjects; 4) Among the plants as teaching material those edible occupies 70 per cent, which represents a deviation toward the botanical knowledge centering on living, This fact, in view of 4,000 native plants of Korea, can be observed that we are impartings horter knowledge of plants in the light of understanding Nature, 5) Discrepancy and confusion between the names and their real entities have often been observed, This results from the differences among the application of such botanicallteminology as division, family, genus, Koreanization of nomencratures in the Chinese characters, renaming the previous plant names, Koreanization of foreign names and Romanization.