There aren`t any significant comment of the time of enlightment of education in Korea (1881-1910) and the Japanese Colonial Period in the education(1911∼1945) in the official curriculum documents. The research interest is the relations between the g...
There aren`t any significant comment of the time of enlightment of education in Korea (1881-1910) and the Japanese Colonial Period in the education(1911∼1945) in the official curriculum documents. The research interest is the relations between the guidelines and the subjects, and the connection of curriculum documents between the changes of times. So this research aims to analyze the differentiation and independence of subject curricula from the general guidelines related documents from the Japanese Colonial Period to the 1st National curriculum. As a result, the curriculum related documents of the Japanese Colonial Period are laws and the independent subject curriculum is rare. But the school gymnastics(1914∼1944) curriculum was developed for the sake of colonialism. The common characteristics of the documents are found that the regulation of (1) school management (2) the student`s enrollment and graduation, (3) class grouping and management, (4) Academic Calendar of year, and (5) subject related content. Today`s totally different meaning to key terms that are used. For example, “organization(編制, 편제)” in terms of class grouping and management in the times of colonial period, but the current meaning is subjects formation. ``Rules (敎則, 교칙)`` of that time means the guidelines of currculum development and implementation but now it is not used as terms. The common characteristics of the subject related documents is that ``content`` and ``the method of instruction`` were included in common. In the ``syllabus`` of 1946, the format of content of subject is diverse and the format of all the subject curriculum don`t have same form till the 1st national curriculum in 1955. According to this research, there are several implications. First, the connection between the common guidelines and the subjects were made well at the times of colonial period, the time of the undifferentiated state. Second, the name of periods needs to be changed. This study proposes the “U.S. Military authorized curriculum period” instead of ``syllabus``, and the ``curriculum structuring period``, instead of “discipline-based curriculum period” that is another name of the 1st national curriclum. Third, the starting time of two periods need to be changed also, so ``August 1945`` and ``the year of 1955`` are proposed.