122nd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Chemistry Education
Room No. Grand Ballroom
Time 10월 18일 (목요일) 11:00~12:30
Code EDU.P-496
Subject Analysis of Inquiry Status of the Lower-level and the Higher-level Middle School Science Textbooks of Kim Jong-Un Era in North Korea
Authors Ji-Yoon Kwon, HyunJu Park*
College of Science Education, Chosun University, Korea
Abstract In 2013, DPRK announced the ‘General 12-Year Obligatory Education Doctrine’ and compiled a new textbook in the Kim Jong-Un system. Kim Jong-Un education aims “nurturing a talent with a sound thinking ability, a deep knowledge of science and technology, and a strong physical strength.” DPRK emphasizes intelligence education not only to acquire simple knowledge but also to improve intellectual ability, thinking ability, and knowledge inquiry method, and pursues to nurture "creative" and "practical" talents through education. And the proportion of natural science subjects such as natural sciences, physics, chemistry, and biology in the secondary curriculum has greatly expanded compared to other subjects. Also, DPRK emphasizes education of the development of independent learning ability and creative ability, and experiment practice for nurture science and technology talents to lead ‘Knowledge Economy Power Nation.’ At the 7th Workers’ Party Convention, DPRK’s Education Policy has been shown to encourage students’ to inquiry activities in teaching-learning process, emphasizing inquiry learning for creative human development and encourages students’ inquiry activities in teaching-learning process. The purpose of this study was to analyse the inquiry status of science textbooks of the Kim Jong-Un era in DPRK using the Romey’s framework to understand the science education in North Korea and provide it as basic data of science education to prepare for unification of Korean Peninsula. Romey’s framework consisted with texts, contents, pictures, diagrams, questions of the science textbooks. The lower-level and the higher-level middle school science textbooks were quantitatively analyzed by Romey’s framwork. The fact that textbooks of all grades in DPRK were not available was a limitation of this study.
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