The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of psychology in the secondary education curriculum of North Korea through analyzing the psychological articles of the "Kyowon Sonjon Suchop(Reference Book of Teachers)" published after 2003...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of psychology in the secondary education curriculum of North Korea through analyzing the psychological articles of the "Kyowon Sonjon Suchop(Reference Book of Teachers)" published after 2003. This paper aims to reveal the process of North Korean psychology by showing the process of cultivating "the revolutionary talent of the knowledge economy possessing logical thinking ability and business ability with people" as the main body type communist who is the psychological goal of the North Korean authorities.
Psychological research in North Korea is valuable as a study of the contents and characteristics of North Korean psychology from the establishment of the socialist system since 1953 to the present day until 2018. In this paper, we tried to reconstruct the scope of North Korean psychology and to organize the content in three dimensions from the existing study which focused on North Korean education, philosophy, and Juche idea.
This paper covers the articles on psychology of education section of the 58th issue from "March 1, 2003” to "June 2, 2018”. I focused on the title of the article and classified it as a ‘psychology' article through analysis. In order to reveal the psychology of North Korea, we selected open - ended content analysis and conducted open coding.
As a result, the categories for analysis are defined as: "Psychology Classification”, "Educational Method”, "Teaching Method”, "Psychology Teacher” and "Educational Modern Informatization”. Through analysis, we have summarized the characteristics of North Korean psychology since 2003.
The overall characteristics of North Korean psychology are as follows. First, the process of change from subject psychology to our psychology has been revealed. Based on the subject psychology, the intention was to use general psychology in the educational field in accordance with the global education trends. This reflects the latest data in psychological theories and allows them to construct modern data.
Second, Educational Psychology, School Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Experimental Psychology, and reflected an academic curriculum of the schools. The introduction of general psychology promoted the students' psychological health, conducted the psychological evaluation, and the psychological evaluation also appeared as school psychologists and school psychologists. The purpose of the psychological evaluation was to find out how to use it as a tool for the verification of ideology.
Third, I was able to confirm that I wanted to develop thinking and application skills by integrating psychology. In the course of psychology education, teachers were required to observe and study the knowledge of psychology professionally by reflecting 'self - standing worker'.
We found the following characteristics of North Korean psychology. First, North Korean authorities criticized general psychology and Marxist psychology and developed socialist psychology and socialist child psychology. Socialist psychology and socialist child psychology are based on the Juche idea and are reflected in the curriculum to emphasize ideological psychology.
Second, North Korea psychology has been done in connection with the formation of a revolutionary world view beyond the understanding of human psychology and consciousness. This appeared to be a willingness to defend their socialism idealogy against the imperialist psychological warfare.
Third, in the knowledge economy era, two axis of human resource development were trained to have logical thinking ability and business ability with people. This is the ability to solve social and political problems from the standpoint of Juche ideology and Party policy when they become a member after graduating from school, and it has been shown that they encourage the hearts of North Koreans and strengthen them to be loyal to the party.
In conclusion, this paper, Analysis of "Kyowon Sonjon Suchop(Reference Book of Teachers)" shows that 'knowledge of human psychology and consciousness is abundant so that people can understand people, North Korean psychology to be appropriate to the goal of training 'human resources education'. This trend is understood to represent the talented person in the age of knowledge economy presented by the North Korean authorities. North Korean psychology seems to emphasize human psychology and consciousness and focus on individual psychology. However, in light of the emphasis on ideological consciousness, it seems to have an ideological form for strengthening consciousness of social group.