2023 Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages 1-9
This study analyzes the process by which “technology&home economics” was newly established as one of the selective compulsory subjects for boys and girls in middle schools under the Fifth National Curriculum of Korea in 1987, through interviews with the parties concerned. Through our research, it was found that KEDI’s Vocational and Technical Education Research Office took the position that technology and home economics should be two different subjects, one focused on “technology” and the other on “home economics”, while women’s groups and the Korean government took the position that technology and home economics should be integrated into a single coeducational subject. The study clarified that the merging of the two subjects was the result of a political compromise between the two sides.
