정신지체특수학교 기본교육과정의 직업교과 교육 운영 실태

Abstract

The purpose of this study were to survey and analyze the actual conditions of a vocational education of students with mental retardation in seventh curriculum, and to find out the problems and to suggest the improvements for them. The subjects of this study 136 secondary school teachers who were working at the schools for students with mental retardation in Gwangju and Geonnam. The questionnaire consisted of 31 questions; 18 questions about actual conditions of vocational education and 13 questions about the problems and improvements of vocational education. To find out the response of subjects according to sex, class in service, age, and career, Chi-square was used. The questions which were asking for preference were calculating by giving a score to each questions according to the preference degree. The results were as follows: First, the actual conditions of the vocational education of students with mental retardation in foundation curriculum, all teachers were aware about the importance about vocational education for students with mental retardation, but the teachers' application in class was less because of lack of understanding about curriculum and the contents of text and teaching method. Second, two main problems of actual vocational education was revealed; One was not developed well the modified vocational education curriculum considering each school's conditions because of teacher's poor understanding about the contents and goal of each part of vocational education curriculum and the other was not working well on-the-job training using the local community. Third, to improve those problems, proper vocational education programs considering each student's conditions have to be developed for improving job abilities of students with mental retardation and local industries have to be developed for more practical on-the-job training of students.