이 글은 2025년부터 순차적으로 적용될 2022 개정 교육과정안과 중등교원 양성체제 개편안에서 한문과와 관련된 내용들을 살펴보고, 그간 한문과에서 제안된 사항을 포함하여 향후 시급히 결정되어야 할 과제들을 점검해 본 것이다. 2022 개정 교육과정 편제안에서 가장 주목되는 점은 현행 고등학교 수업량의 기준이 되는 ‘단위’ 를 ‘학점’으로 전환하는 ‘학점 기반 교육과정’을 도입하겠다는 것과 ‘고교학점제’ 도입을 통해 모든 학생의 개별 성장 및 진로 연계 교육이 가능하도록 하겠다는 ‘교과목 재구조화’라고 할 수 있다. 따라서 현행 180단위에서 174학점으로 감소하는 교과 수업시수를 어떻게 조정하느냐가 쟁점이 될 것인데, 수십 개 교과가 묶여있는 ‘생활･교양’ 영역의 경우, 최소 16학점을 유지할 수 있도록 요구하여야 한다. 또한 ‘공통과목’ 개설이 어려울 경우를 대비하여 ‘일반’, ‘융합’, ‘진로’로 이루어진 ‘선택 과목’을 정교하게 구조화하는 것도 중요하며, ‘공동교육과정’이나 ‘학교 밖 교육’ 제도를 적극적으로 활용할 수 있도록 준비하여야 한다. 아울러 학점제형 내신평가제는 대학 입시와 직결되므로, 이것이 한문과에 어떤 영향을 끼칠지도 면밀히 검토해야 한다. ‘한문과 교육과정’의 경우, 교과의 성격과 목표, 교육환경의 변화 등을 종합적으로 고려하여 교과 역량을 도출하고, 내용체계와 성취기준을 재설정하는 한편 이를 실현할 수 있는 교수·학습 방법을 제시할 수 있도록 해야 한다. 다교과 역량 함양과 교원양성기관 특성화를 명분으로 한 교원양성체제 개편안은 소인수과목의 전문성을 훼손할 뿐만 아니라 존립을 위태롭게 할 수도 있으므로 적극적인 대응이 필요하다.

The purpose of this study is to present and explore current state and reform tendency of teacher education curriculum of Normal universities in China, focusing on curriculum provisions and training methods of pre-service teachers. For this purpose, the background of teacher education curriculum reform has been discussed at first from angles of society, the government and Normal Universities. It is obvious that China’s teacher education courses have attained internationally known achievements over the past decades and have supported the largest scale of basic education all over the world. The current focal problem of China’s teacher education is not the problem of teacher’s quantity, but quality. In order to adapt to the new situation and tendency, the Chinese government adjusted strategic direction and provided new guidance on teacher education for improving the quality. It includes the transformation of teacher education models from “planned training” to “market oriented control”; active support for improving teacher’s academic levels; implementation of the open-type teacher training pattern and so on. According to the government’s control and guidance, Normal Universities should also change training concepts and teacher education philosophy, mainly on enhancing quality-oriented education, emphasizing students’ sustainable self development ability, and attaching importance on the concept of lifelong education. Under this same background, teacher education universities show extreme similarity on curriculum reform. They all stick to the model of one basic training object, two elective specialty calibers for choice, three-dimensional crossed curriculum systems, four types of optional curriculums, five-in-one training patterns, and six aspects of surrounded general education courses. A lot of practice indicates that the reform of teacher education mode in universities is effective and rational to some extent. The model is worth refering to in teacher education curriculum reform, for most countries.

The United States curriculum reform movement has recently started in each area of science education. The initiatives on curriculum reform stem from a notion that the low rate of science curricula offered in schools has been a serious problem. The schools in the United States are not only facing a lack of offerings within science curricula but also low enrollment in science courses, especially in physics, chemistry, and earth science. This trend resulted in low performances on international achievement tests including TIMSS and PISA. This paper introduces the efforts to solve existing problems through curriculum reform; including ChemCom, BioCom, EarthComm, and Active Physics. In this paper, a discussion is presented to show how the curricula can help address the status quo in science education. More specifically, this paper focuses on curriculum reform in high school earth science (EarthComm), providing a closer look at the scope and sequence of the reform movement. EarthComm was chosen because it was released based on the development of the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996). Consequently, EarthComm became a curriculum that espoused the visions of the Standards, which has been guiding the reform of the US curriculum. At the end of this paper, two research outcomes of the EarthComm curriculum implementation in schools are discussed in terms of student learning and differences from conventional curricula.

This article describes the major themes to change in historical and philosophical perspectives of science education that lead the US and Korean science curriculum reform movements since 1957. Inquiry teaching and criticism of teaching science as inquiry in the late 1950s and the 1960s, Science-Technology-Society (STS) Curricula, and Science Literacy and the 1980s science literacy crisis are discussed. In the US, three major curricular projects as responses to the scientific literacy crisis are exemplary such as the Project 2061 sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Project on Scope, Sequence, and Coordination (SS&C) initiated by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), and the National Science Education Standards (NSES) published by the National Research Council. To identify how each set of national content standards differ, we compared specific content standards related to the theory of plate tectonics in Earth and Space science in grades 9-12 over the three national standards: Benchmarks of AAAS, NSES of the NRC, and SS&C of the NSTA. Against this historical background of the US science education reform movements, the curriculum reform movements in Korea is briefly discussed. In general, Korean science curriculum reform movements have reflected and resembled the recommendations of the US reform movements. In addition, it is important to note that throughout the history of curriculum revision in Korea, there have been continuing pendulum swings between a theoretical, discipline-centered curriculum and a liberal, humanistic, and student-centered curriculum, which pays more attention to students in terms of their interest and psychological preparedness. In conclusion, the sixth and seventh national science curriculum revisions reflect rather a student-centered movement by reducing technical and sophisticated topics, taking constructivism learning theory into consideration, and adding more STS related topics.