• Korean Journal of Comparative Education
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.23-50
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to explore the status of 'Gesamtschule' (eng. Comprehensive school) in Germany and to suggest future direction for Korean education. To achieve this purpose, this study explored 1)the background of adopting Gesamtschule and its developing process; 2)Change of school structure since 2000 and the status of Gesmatschule. Results of this study indicated that 1)Changing school structure in Germany focused on closing educational gap caused by social class differentials; 2)Gesamtschule and other school model, similar with Gesamtschule are spreading widely in relation to change of school structure in secondary education; 3)Expanding this school model contributed to closing educational gap by analysing of recent results of PISA. This study suggested that efforts for closing educational gab in korean school should not only concentrate on supporting students, but also accompany discussion about change of school structure.

• School Mathematics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.323-343
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• 2011

The study of 2011 education course revision proposal suggests that middle school level function shall be taught with emphasis on its role as tool to understand the situations of actual world, and the concept shall be extended in high school into formularized setting that integrate various fields based on middle school function. In revising education course, the circumstances of other countries are desired to be considered to keep abreast of international standard education courses. In this study, the textbooks of Gesamtschule a general school a school type similar to the education system in Korea among various school forms of Germany were selected to look into the characteristics of function introduction and teaching & learning in Germany, and the textbooks were compared and analyzed with those of Korea. As a result of comparison and analysis on the system and contents with emphasis on function area, German textbooks differed from the 7th revised education course on the introduction of function concept, contents development method and method of instructing on graph etc. Such differences are anticipated to serve as data for reference in the development of revised education courses and textbooks in Korea.