The Graduate School of Education is the course for giving the teachers the opportunities of studying, and it has been designed mainly for the teachers who have been teaching exactly at elementary, middle, and high schools as well as for those who have...
The Graduate School of Education is the course for giving the teachers the opportunities of studying, and it has been designed mainly for the teachers who have been teaching exactly at elementary, middle, and high schools as well as for those who have taken main parts in Korean educational field. It is also the institute of cultivating men of intelligence.
The purpose of this study is for looking for better and promising ways of developing the curriculum of Korean educational field by analyzing the curriculums of Graduate Course of Education from 1999 to 2000.
In order to meet the purpose of this study, the code and concerning materials of education were gathered, and the laws related to the Graduate School were searched for and studied. Besides, there were studies on the following materials: the prospectus, history(chronology), the capacity of each course, of Graduate School, based on the 5 universities located in Seoul. There was also the study on the current curriculum of the courses for majoring in music education by comparing the obligatory courses versus non-obligatory courses.
And, as a result, through the method of analyzing the curriculums from 1997 to 1998 and from 1999 to 2000, the development image of the curriculum of the music education is presented. To sum up the result of the study follows like this;
First, to focus on the number of universities which established the music courses, the number is 102 out of 160(63.75%), and the number of graduate school which has music education is 37 out of 102(36.27%).
Looking from the regional criterion, in case of Kangwon province, there is 3 universities which established graduate school out of 4 universities(75%), which reveals the highest rate among the nationwide. And in Incheon and Kyunggi province, there is 1 out of 15 universities(6.67%), which shows the lowest rate in the whole country.
Second, to analyze the music education course in the graduate school of education, based on Kyung Hee University, Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Ewha Women's University, Korea National University of Education, and Hanyang University, from 1997 to 1998 and from 1999 to 2000, the number of course which contains the term 'education' is 3 in case of Kyung Hee University, and grows to 8. And in case of Seoul National University, the number of course was the same as the previous year. In Yonsei University, 4 courses grew up to 6, and 6 grow up to 8 in Ewha Women's University, 6 in Korea National University of Education, 4 in Hanyang University, which was the same.
Third, the number of courses of 6 universities from 1997 to 1998, and from 1999 to 2000, 15 subjects grew up to 20 in Kyung Hee University. And the unique difference of the university is that; there established three new courses such as : The Analysis of Elementary School Music Textbook, The Analysis of Middle School Textbook, and the analysis of high school music textbook, which make it possible to link with the actual course of elementary, middle, and high schools.
Considering 6 subjects in Seoul National University, which was as same as the previous year, and the unique point is; unlike the other universities, their courses aren't too much on the practical teaching and theory of education like the general M.A and B.A course.
In Yonsei University, 24 subjects grew up to 28 in education course, and Musical Acoustics, Directed Research, Kodaly Methods, Sight-Singing, are the unique subjects. However, in case of Ewha Women's University, the subjects decreases from 25 to 20, and practical teaching courses such as playing Piano Pedagogy, Voice Lesson, Composition Lesson, Orchestra Lesson are disappeared.
In Korea National University of Education, the subjects grew up from 33 to 62, and the number of non-obligatory subjects is the greatest among 6 universities. And in Hanyang University, there are 16 subjects, which was the same as the previous year, and there are 2 unique subjects : Materials and Structure of Music, Aesthetical and Philosophical Experiences in Music.
As a result, the whole curriculum of music major in graduate school of education, as the main institute of taking the important part in educational field, has to establish more special and systematic committee of making practical curriculum, which fit for current music education in Korea. Here the study focuses on the Korea National University of Education, and 5 universities in Seoul area, and the study has to be broaden to various universities all around the country including local universities and their curriculums of music major in graduate school of education.