This study analysis the characteristic of 2013 revised Korean Language curriculum in North Korea comparing with the 2015 revised Korean Language curriculum in South Korea. As a result, it is common that the two curriculums contain the character of the...
This study analysis the characteristic of 2013 revised Korean Language curriculum in North Korea comparing with the 2015 revised Korean Language curriculum in South Korea. As a result, it is common that the two curriculums contain the character of the Korean language subject, the objectives of the Korean language curriculum, the contents, teaching and learning method and evaluation. But there are guidelines for developing textbooks in the North Korean curriculum unlike the South Korea.
In the character of the Korean Language subject and the view of language, the North and the South Korea curriculums stress commonly the knowledge, communication skills and thinking skills, but the North emphasizes political idea and emotion through Korean Language subject education. In the North Korea curriculum’s view of language, language is the tool of human cultivating.
In both of the two curriculums, the objectives enstrengthen the knowledge, skills and attitudes, but the North Korean curriculum comprises autonomous idea consciousness and the Kim Jong-Il’s patronism. In the contents, the division of areas of the Korean Language subject differs from each other, and the achievement standards of the North Korean curriculum give a more detailed account than those of the South.
The two curriculums’ teaching and learning guidelines stress the utilization of the knowledge and the formation of attitudes in common, but the North focuses the political idea and revolutionary emotion. In the evaluation, the South curriculum presents various evaluational methods for achievements, and the North curriculum presents a certain methods. Finally the North Korean curriculum contains specific and concrete guidelines for developing textbooks.