The Analysis on Contents of School Consumer Education of the 7th Curriculum - Focused on

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 2003;41(1):231-248.

7차교육과정의 학교소비자 교육 내용 분석 - 중학교 1,2학년 「기술,가정」을 중심으로 -

The Analysis on Contents of School Consumer Education of the 7th Curriculum - Focused on "Home Economics & Technology" for 7th, 8th Grade -

이승신, 김민경, 조정자

건국대학교 소비자 주거학과,가정교육학과 대학원,가정교육학과 대학원

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research is to analyze ‘consumer education system in middle school’, whether it is suitably organized to help students make the right decision in their daily life as a rational consumer in this fast changing “the Informational Society”. We divided the consumer education of “the Informational Society” into 4 fields of studies(consumer information technique, decision making on purchasing, consumer financial management, and consumerism) and made specific analysis for this research. The “Technology & Home Economics” textbook which follows ‘The 7th curriculum’ conducted by “Korean Educational Board” Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development for first and second grade in middle school were used for this analysis. The results founded are as follows: first, for the curriculum analysis according to the 4 fields of consumer education, both the first and the second grade students' textbook had consumer information technique as the major portion of the consumer education. Second, as a result of the comparison between the two grade levels showed that the second grade level has higher portion of consumer education in “Home economics & Technology” textbook than the first grade level. Third, the present status of consumer education showed that the first grade level's consumer education was only limited in consumer information technique, but the second grade level's consumer education was ranging evenly throughout the 3 fields of consumer education: consumer information technique, decision making on purchasing and consumerism. These results of this study contribute to the development of an efficient and desirable curriculum for the adolescent' consumer education, specially for school consumer education, in “the Informational Society”.

Keywords: 학교소비자교육, school consumer education, 기술, 가정, Home Economics & Technology, 소비자정보기술, consumer information technique, 구매의사결정, decision making on purchasing, 소비자주의, consumerism