도덕과 수업에서의 쿠레레(Currere) 방법의 적용

A Study on the Application of ‘Currere’ Method in Moral Education

도덕과 교육은 학생들의 삶 속에서 바람직한 도덕성 함양과 그 실천을 목표로 한다고 볼 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 학생들의 삶과 경험이 소외되어 있는 현행 도덕과 교육과 수업이 학생들의 도덕성 발달에 실제적으로 기여할 수 있는가 하는 문제점에 착안하여, 이를 극복할 수 있는 대안으로서 쿠레레(currere) 방법을 도덕과 수업에 적용하였으며, 연구의 결과는 질적 연구방법을 통해 분석하였다.연구의 결과, 쿠레레 방법은 학생들의 삶과 경험이 중심이 되는 도덕 수업, 열린 마음으로 타자와 함께 하는 도덕수업, 도덕적 앎이 삶으로 연결되는 도덕수업을 가능하게 함으로써 도덕성의 인지, 정서, 행동의 통합적 발달을 도모할 수 있는 도덕교육의 방법론적 가능성을 시사하였다.

The purpose of this study was to find the educational significance of Currere , suggested by Pinar and Grumet as a methodological model of curriculum reconceptualization, by applying it in moral education to overcome the problems and limitations of current moral education curriculum, textbooks, and instruction in Korea. The developed procedures were applied in the middle school moral education with ten classes of 7th grade for two periods in a week, totally eight periods in each class, and students learning activities were done through the autobiographical writing. The results of the application in moral education were as follows. First, a moral education in which life and experience become the focus. In Currere method, students had opportunities to reflect their lives and experience. Second, a moral education in which students encounter with others with open mind. Third, a moral education in which knowing and doing got into one. The application of Currere method in moral education had an educational significance in that it could work out problems and limitations of the existing moral education curriculum and instruction by making students lives and experience the focus of moral education, trying to integrative development of cognition, emotion, and behavior in morality.