In this article, to obtain several suggestions for foreign language curriculum in elementary school, nationwide reform and related issues are studied in Japanese public elementary schools. Since 2002, English has been taught in the "Period for Integrated Study"(Sougouteki na Gakusyuu no Jikan), not as a school subject but as part of the international-understanding education, and is limited to learning how to converse in English. This decentralized style of curriculum reform seems to provide an opportunity to promote actual School-Based Curriculum Development. In this paper, a brief history of learning the English language and several related movements are reviewed in elementary schools of Japan. Additionally two cases, "The Research and Developmental School"(a kind of experimental school, commissioned by Mext: the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), and "The Special District in Education"(selected by the Cabinet), are investigated because they have actively researched English language curriculum development. Their products are introduced into English language curriculum reforms by making the point of "Intercultural Communication" and by considering a pupil's emotional element and its long-term change. In Korea, coming into the age of the international society, English has been taught as a subject in elementary school since 1997. Its negative effects, however, will be serious social problems. As a countermeasure against the overstudying of English language learning in Korean elementary schools, more Assistant Language Teachers will be assigned to English classes. Pupils will be expected to have more opportunities to speak directly to foreigners. So far, English learning in elementary schools has mainly taken account of language skills. By contrast, intercultural learning by interacting with foreigners can be much more useful. In conclusion, it is necessary that the purpose of intercultural communication should include an English language curriculum in Korean elementary schools, because learning the language is based on this inclusion.
抄錄 I. 問題の所在 II. 日本の公立小學校への外國語導入の經緯と動向 III. 硏究開發學校と敎育構造改革特區におけるカリキュラム開發の現狀 1. 硏究開發學校におけるカリキュラム開發 2. 敎育構造改革特區におけるカリキュラム開發例とその示唆 IV. 結論 參考文獻 Abstract
키워드
ヵリキュラム개발소학교외국어ヵリキュラム총합적な학습の시간이문화간コミュ一シニケ一ション능력curriculum developmentperiod for integrated study foreign language curriculum of an elementary schoolintercultural communicative competenceヵリキュラム開發小學校外國語ヵリキュラム總合的な學習の時間異文化間コミュ一シニケ一ション能力
한국일본교육학회 [The Korea Society of Japanology, Japan Education Division Seoul, Korea]
설립연도
1985
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
한국일본교육학회는 1985년 2월 27일, 한국과 일본의 교육학 연구의 정립과 발전을 목적으로 그 역사적인 첫 발을 내딛은 이래 지금까지 양국 교육학의 이해에 많이 기여했다.
오늘날 우리나라 교육학 전공학자는 수천 명에 이르고 있으며, 전공의 다양성은 물론, '지역연구'의 영역 또한 매우 광범위하게 펼쳐 있다. 우리나라 교육학의 외연을 살찌게 하기 위해서는 무엇보다 되도록 수많은 지역과 나라에 걸친 광범위한 '지역교육연구'가 활발하게 전개되는 것이라 하겠다.
그러나 이러한 시대적 요청에도 불구하고 우리나라 지역교육연구의 현실은 그 지역의 다양성과 교육학적 이해에 있어서 매우 척박한 실정이다. 이런 부진한 지역연구의 현실 속에서 본 학회는 아시아 지역, 그 중에서도 특히 '일본교육' 연구에 초점을 두고, 운영하고 있다는 것은 교육학계에서 선도적 역할을 수행하고 있는 것이다.