A Study of Teaching Contents and Models in Practical Arts Based on the Sixth Curriculum of the Elementary School.

국민학교 육차 교육과정의 실과 지도내용 및 지도모형 연구

Currently, textbooks of practical arts in the elementary school are being revised for the sixth time. All the students in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade of elementary school will learn these new textbooks beginning in March, 1995. The purpose of this study is to develop teaching models suitable for the new textbooks of practical arts under the sixth curriculum in the elementary school. The results of this study are summarized as follow: 1. Teaching guidances with subject matters in new textbooks are presented in Table 2, 3, 4, 5. The subject matters for each grade are divided into four main areas under the sixth curriculum. 2. The subject matters under the sixth curriculum are clothing, food, houseing, gradening, computer, industry and commerce. These are included in the four main areas of handling, making, cultivating or breeding and keeping. Activities or contents in these main areas are not necessarily related to each other in sequence. 3. The subject matters in the main areas are not perfectly constructed in accordance with the level of child development. 4. Teaching models and their example for each teaching unit are presented in Table 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.