Critical Understanding and Creative Alternatives of The 2022 Revision Draft of Nation-wide Middle School Curriculum

Objectives The purpose of this study is to examine the problems and issues that the recently announced 2022 revised curriculum summary will cause in light of the middle school curriculum operation experience, and further explore improvement tasks and suggest alternatives. Methods The contents of major issues were analyzed and critically understood in light of the 2015 curriculum operation experience. According to the revised announcement, the middle school curriculum is broadly designed to expand digital basic literacy and information education, connect free semesters and career-related semesters, reduce school sports club activities, secure 68 hours of school autonomous time per year, and expand the opening of school elective courses. Characterized by, etc. Reflecting the school field operation experience of the 2015 revised curriculum is expected to reduce another trial and error. Results According to the research results, first, if digital is basic literacy, science and technology subjects belonging to the same subject (district) share the role of information education from insufficient number of hours in information subjects, so that many information education contents are included in science and engineering subjects. It is necessary to strengthen IT convergence education such as artificial intelligence and maker in middle school technical education by separating technology and home subjects. Second, it is important to abolish the free semester system for the first year, which causes academic decline due to the corona virus, and to properly operate career-related education in the second semester of the third year as practical career guidance is continuously provided within the curriculum. need. Third, instead of dispersing creative experiential activities such as physical education club activities in several places, including school sports club activities, it is necessary to integrate them all into the ‘Physical Education’ section. Fourth, democratic citizenship education, ecological transformation education, and labor human rights education, which were decided to be applied to all subjects by using the use of school autonomous time secured at 68 hours per academic year, are not forcibly injected or reformed in accordance with the Voitelsbach Convention. It is necessary to keep in mind that political citizenship education takes place. Conclusions Therefore, the revision of the general summary of the middle school curriculum will greatly reduce the overlap of school-level goals, human image, and core competencies, actively utilize the school autonomous time to raise the basic academic ability that has plummeted, and focus on facts and scientific content, but avoid controversial content. By introducing the Wojtelsbach Agreement, brainwashing and infusion are avoided, and the revision can be better if it reflects the operational experience and wisdom of the field.