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Analysis on Computer Education in Elementary Schools in North Korea and South Korea with Further Prospect

남한과 북한의 초등학교 컴퓨터교육 현황과 향후 전망

  • Lee, Yong-Bae (Dept. of Computer Education, Jeonju National University of Education)
  • 이용배 (전주교육대학교 컴퓨터교육과)
  • Received : 2014.09.28
  • Accepted : 2014.12.02
  • Published : 2014.12.31

Abstract

With the start of the present Korean Creative-Economy Government, more effort is put to prepare the Unification in many areas. But it is not easy to find studies on contemporary status of North Korea specifically in information technology or computer education due to the poor accessibility to the country. This study is on comparing computer education in elementary schools in North Korea and South Korea and diagnosing future direction of computer education as the beginning stage of Unification. The most study is performed from backtracking curriculum methodology based on computer textbooks from North Korea and South Korea. In both countries, the elementary school curriculum for computer subject is mostly dealing with the usage of softwares. In North Korea they don't teach internet applications and they uses different type of office programs. The further ideas for desirable future education are suggested with analysis on the computer education in other countries such as China and Vietnam which can be appropriate role models for North Korea and USA, UK and India for South Korea. It is expected in both countries that the computer education will be more focused on programming rather than on software usage in the future.

창조경제 정부가 들어서면서 통일에 대한 기대가 확산되고 있지만 정보기술이나 컴퓨터교육 분야에서는 접근상의 문제로 아직까지 북한의 현황에 대해 연구된 결과가 거의 없었다. 본 연구에서는 통일을 대비한 시작단계로 남한과 북한의 초등학교 컴퓨터교육 현황을 비교해보고 향후 방향을 진단해 보고자 하였다. 연구방법으로는 주로 남북한 컴퓨터 교재를 대상으로 역추적 하였다. 연구결과, 남북한 모두 소프트웨어 활용중심으로 학습하는 공통점이 있었고 북한은 인터넷 응용 교육을 하지 않으며 사용 소프트웨어의 종류가 남한과 다르다는 차이점이 있었다. 앞으로의 컴퓨터교육 방향은 북한이 역할 모델로 삼을 수 있는 중국, 베트남과 남한이 참고할 수 있는 미국, 영국, 인도를 분석하였으며 남북한 모두 소프트웨어 활용에서 프로그래밍 위주의 교육으로 전환될 것을 예측할 수 있었다.

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