노작교육 관점에서의 실과교육과 대안교육의 비교 분석

Comparing and Analyzing the Practical Arts Education and the Alternative Education at the View of a Work Oriented Education

This study is based on the fact that school education systems now have faced with many problems and the belief that the work oriented education can help children to lead their own life by themselves. The purpose of this study is to understand the work oriented education to amore advanced degree, to compare and analyse the practical arts education with alternative education, and to propose the direction of mutual complement at the work oriented education in practical arts education and an alternative education. Various informations such as articles and books are gathered, classified, and interpreted for the purpose. The work oriented education is a method of education, which includes handicraft activity or physical activities combined with mental activities, which has been spotlighted by educators since the early 19th century. The practical arts education is a basic cultural subject for 5th and 6th grade students in elementary schools. The work oriented education is based on philosophy of the practical arts education and the way of the practical arts education. Also, an alternative education is the movement which points out, criticizes, and copes with the present school system problems and includes work oriented education as an important activity. Considering all the results, the work oriented education has the value, which is “the development of meaningful learning” and “the combine of various sides of life”. The work oriented education is a part of the practical arts education and the alternative education, so the practical arts education and the alternative education must develop each other in mutual complement.