초등 실과교육의 새로운 패러다임 탐색

Exploring a New Paradigm for Elementary Practical Arts Education

This paper was prepared for a key speech at the Conference of The Korean Association for Practical Arts Education on May 23, 1998. It reviewed the importance and concepts of elementary practical arts education. Five major misconceptions and ten problems were also specifically examined that served as a way to explore a new paradigm of practical arts education for the 21st century. Elementary Practical Arts Subject is very important because it is only a subject matter for prevocational education at the elementary school level in Korea. The contents of practical arts education could be divided into the foundational and specialized contents. The foundational contents were taken from the basic disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, etc. while the specialized contents were taken from general home economics, agriculture, industrial arts, computer science, etc. The Practical Arts Education should play an important role in developing vocational domain of human development. It should integrate academic skills into both the teaching-learning process and the curriculum of the Practical Arts Subject.