The current Status and Utilization of technology laboratory at the junior high school in Chungbuk Province in Korea

충청북도 중학교 기술실 현황과 활용 실태

The purpose of this study was to investigate the current Status and practical use of technology laboratory at the junior high school in Chungbuk Province in order to give some suggestions on hands-on activities for technology education. First, concerning present actual conditions of technology laboratory, There was a large disparity between the urban and rural schools in the possession of a technology laboratory, as the rate of the schools equipped with the rooms respectively stood at 69.84 percent and 33.38 percent in the urban and rural regions. By the type of foundation, every national school, 86.24 percent of the public schools and 37.50 percent of the private schools were equipped with the technology laboratory. By school size, 35.59 of the schools with fewer than 10 classes, 62.11 percent of the schools with 10 to fewer than 30 classes and 85.71 percent of the schools with 31 classes or more were in possession of the laboratory. Thus, the type of foundation and school size made differences to that. As a result of asking the schools without the laboratory about the reason, as many as 88.52 percent had been equipped with the laboratory in the past but converted them into spaces for another purpose. When the schools that had no such laboratory were asked a question whether they had any plans to install a technology laboratory, just five schools(8.19%) had that plan. Second, as for the practical use of the technology laboratory, for what the rooms were actually used was asked, and most of the schools made use of them as Comprehensive General laboratory. As to the size of the rooms, each of the rooms was as large as a classroom($66m^2$) in 62.12 percent of the schools, and their region, type of foundation and student gender made little significant differences to that. Regarding the time for utilizing the laboratory, the majority of the schools used the laboratory approximately once or twice a year, and their region, type of foundation, student gender and school size made few distinctive differences to that. In terms of budget for practice in the rooms, the largest number of the schools that accounted for 36.36 percent earmarked three thousand won to less than five thousand won per student.

이 연구의 목적은 기술 가정과 체험활동 수업을 위한 충청북도 중학교 기술실 현황과 활용 실태를 조사하기 위한 것이다. 첫째, 기술실의 보유 현황은 도시 지역이 69.84%, 읍면 지역이 33.38%로 두 지역 간의 기술실 보유 정도 차이가 컸고, 성립 형태별로는 국립학교 100%, 공립학교 86.24%, 사립학교 37.50%의 학교에서 기술실을 보유하고 있었고, 학급 수별은 10학급 미만인 학교는 35.59%, 10학급 이상 30학급 미만은 학교 62.11%, 31학급 이상인 학교에서는 85.71%로 차이가 나타났다. 기술실 규모에 대한 질문의 응답에는 근무 지역별, 설립 형태별, 성별 형태별로는 큰 차이 없이 교실 1칸($66m^2$) 넓이의 기술실이 62.12%로 나타났다. 기술실이 없는 이유를 조사한 결과, 기술실을 갖고 있었음에도 불구하고 기술실을 다른 공간으로 전환했다는 학교가 88.52%를 차지하고 있었다. 기술실이 없는 학교 중에서 앞으로 기술실의 설치 계획을 묻는 질문에 설치 계획이 있다고 응답한 학교는 5개교(8.19%)에 불과했다. 둘째, 기술실 활용 실태는 기술실 유형에 대한 질문에 종합 실습장이라는 응답이 대부분을 차지하였고, 기술실 활용 시간을 묻는 질문의 응답에 근무 지역별, 설립 형태별, 성별 형태별, 학급 수별에 큰 차이 없이 대부분의 학교에서 연중 1회에서 2회 정도를 활용하고 있다는 결과가 나왔다. 또한, 기술실 실습 수업의 배정 예산 결과를 살펴보면 학생 1인당 3천원 이상 5천원 미만이 36.36%로 가장 많은 비율을 차지했다.