Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education (한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육)

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The Changes of Future Society and Educational Environment according to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Tasks of School Science Education

4차 산업혁명에 따른 미래사회와 교육환경의 변화, 그리고 초·중등 과학교육의 과제

  • Received : 2017.08.09
  • Accepted : 2017.08.26
  • Published : 2017.08.31
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Abstract

Nowadays, the public as well as science educators pays much attention to the fourth industrial revolution and wonders what will happen to the societies in the future. Thus, this study aimed at predicting the education environment which will be brought from the fourth industrial revolution, and suggesting the solutions or tasks to be investigated in science education. Through the literature review, this study categorized the major changes of future society into a wild fluctuation of job market, the shift from possession-based economy to sharing economy, post-urbanized and distributed system, and the crisis of dehumanization. According to the four major changes, this study predicted the future environment that will occur to the educational system. First, the students should the competences necessary for the future and the school curriculum will be changed in terms of width and depth. Second, sharing economy may bring about the open platform similar to MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or TED. Third, the manifestation of artificial intelligence in education will enable the individual and paced learning, and thanks to the change, the concept of distributed cognition will be more focused in education research. Fourth, the collaborative learning and character education should be more stressed to resist the dehumanization. This study suggests relevant tasks and issues that should be tackled for the successful change in primary and secondary schools.

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