The comparative study on the contents of education of kindergarten curriculum between Korea and Quebec, Canada

The comparative study on the contents of education of kindergarten curriculum between Korea and Quebec, Canada

This is the fundarnental research to prepare for the reorganization of our Kindergarten Curriculurn to the intemational educational reforrn. To accomplish this, Kindergarten curriculurn of Quebec, Canada which is a model for competency based kindergarten curriculurn, and Korean Kindergarten Curriculurn which is revised in 2007, were compared and analyzed. As a result, both curriculurns are categorized into 6 areas according to their sirnilar contents - health and sensory motor, society and emotion, art, language and communication, understanding and exploratory, and project. Second, Quebec presents the concept of competency which is integrated and expanded arnong areas exceeding the functions and practices whereas Korea has the contents with the center of knowledge and functions based on the development of the corresponding area as described below. Third, Quebec focuses on the whole and integrated approaches whereas Korea is airning towards the learning of content in the corresponding area.