초․중․고등학교 교과서에 나타난 발명교육 내용 분석

Analysis of Invention Education Contents Reflected to ElementaryㆍMiddleㆍHigh School Textbook

The purposes of the study were 1) to analyze invention education contents reflected to elementaryㆍ middleㆍhigh school textbook, 2) to represent concrete contents sample which related to invention education closely. This study was carried out through contents analysis method which analyzed at the base of certain criteria. Conclusions of this study were as follows: 1) Numbers of unit related to invention and thinking were 1,307, and ones of related to invention and technology were 501, ones of related to invention and management were 33, and ones of related to invention and patent were 6. It was identified that lack of balance was very intensified among those area. 2) So, strategies for enforcing the area which was insufficient should be established in the future curriculum revision. In particular, contents for knowledge property right, patent information searching, invention marketing, and patent application need to be supplemented. 3) It is desirable that invention education contents should be reflected to mainly science subject, practical arts subject, and Korea language subject to maximize the effect of invention education. 4) Concrete follow-up study for activation of invention education through school subject should be carried at the base of this analysis in the near future.