• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.93-104
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• 2015

Strengthening of software education is a big trend worldwide recently. Based on this trend, the Ministry of Education issued a domestic content to enhance software education in September 2014. In this regard, the most important problems are the number of available teachers who can adequately teach computational thinking in the pursuit of new software education and the teaching competencies of teachers in charge of software education. These problems are the same issues emerged in the United Kingdom where computer science education became mandatory for all primary and secondary students from September 2014. This study examines how the United Kingdom and the United States have solved these problems and discusses the realistic solutions for our country.