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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2020.40.6.621

A Comparative Study on the Contents of Secondary Earth Science Curriculum between Mongolia and South Korea  

Gantumur, Ganchimeg (Korea National University of Education)
Kwak, Youngsun (Korea National University of Education)
Cha, Heeyong (Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.40, no.6, 2020 , pp. 621-630 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study compared and analyzed the contents of secondary earth science curriculum in Mongolia and South Korea to check the contents of earth science education in both countries and to prepare basic data necessary for future earth science curriculum revisions. The research questions of this study are: first, to understand the changes and current operating conditions of earth science curriculum in both countries, to compare and analyze with other foreign cases, and second, to compare and analyze the contents of earth science and curriculum in both countries. The TIMSS evaluation framework is used to compare and analyze the earth science-related contents included in the science curriculum of middle schools. For analyzing the contents of high school, the contents of NGSS in the United States and the earth science curriculum contents of high schools in South Korea were mixed and the analysis frameworks were created and validated by experts. As a result of the study, countries that follow the Russian-style education system did not organize and operate earth science as an independent science subject, and deal with earth science-related content in the natural geography area of the geography subject. The earth science contents covered in middle school science curriculum in both countries, 18 of the 27 content elements of the TIMSS content analysis framework were matched in Mongolia and 20 in South Korea. In high school curriculum, the contents of earth science in Mongolia were described more briefly and not covered than in South Korea. In particular, the Mongolian geography curriculum dealt with many environmental issues. The emphasis on the operation method of the earth science curriculum in Mongolia and the contents related to the environment can be used as a reference when developing an interdisciplinary integrated curriculum of science and social studies in South Korea.
Keywords
international comparison of national curriculum; science curriculum; earth science curriculum; curriculum contents; TIMSS;
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