Importance and Limitation of Subject Matter Education in Special Education - Focused on Lebate on Speciality and Generality of Special Education-

Importance and Limitation of Subject Matter Education in Special Education - Focused on Lebate on Speciality and Generality of Special Education-

Recent special education of Korea faces a rapid change. Recently Korean special education faces a rapid change. 「Special Education Improvement Act」 was abolished and 「Special Education Laws for Persons with Disabilities and Others」 were enacted and executed from May of 2008 and as special educational teacher' s ceπificate was issued by course like kindergarten, elementary and secondary special educational teachers license, division by the areas of disabilities was also abolished. Thus, the 7th special school curriculum was changed into revised curriculum in 2008 and applied from 2009, and after that, according to the real-time revision system of curnculum, special education curriculum for 2010 was newly notified on Dec. 20, 2010 and detailed criteria for acquiring special educational teachers' certificate which is the foundation of curriculum for training special educational teachers were revised in 2009 and it was applied from new teacher recruitment examination for 2009. Therefore, this study aims to examine radical changes of Korean special education from three perspectives inc1uding perspective of special education goals (from speciality to generality), that of special education related laws (from special law to general law) and that of special education methods (from separate education to inc1usive education) and consider the current problems in the field of special education like importance and lirnitation of curriculum education in special education.