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A plan by the Korean Educational Development Institute for the Integration of Technology and Home Economics in the Revision Process for the 4th National Curriculum
2023 Volume 53 Issue 1 Pages 22-30
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2023 Volume 53 Issue 1 Pages 22-30
This paper analyzes the initial attempts to integrate technology education and home economics education in middle school that appeared in the 4th National Curriculum development process before the “Education Normalization and Eliminating Private Tutoring plan” in Korea.
In the late 1970s, Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) accepted the global ideology of gender equality and the curriculum theory of the Industrial Arts Curriculum Project (IACP) in the US, and planned to establish a new coeducational compulsory subject “Industrial Technology” for middle schools, which laid an important foundation for the “Technology and Home economics” subject. This plan was ultimately unrealized due to a change of government.
