부산대학교 도서관

This research aims to analyze current operational system of practical education, in particular of family and home management, in national universities of education and Jeju National University, proposing standard curriculum, and to enable prospective teachers to build up teaching capacity. Main Research method is to survey syllabi by email and telephone call, of which the research outcomes are as follows : First of all, the most popular curriculum of the family and home management are of two academic credits, three hours, compulsory courses, and for senior students. Those courses are related to Family Science, home management, or Housing. Second, most of the courses aim to provide knowledge and understanding of concepts associated with family relationship and family formation, but also covers enhancement of expertise for resource management and school curriculum application. Third, common course goals include understanding of family, family formation, family life learning, money and time management, communication and decision making, and their teaching notes and textbook research and development. Fourth, main delivery method is lecture, followed by presentation, discussion, on-site visit. And evaluation method focuses on writing test, but presentation, homework, and quiz are also used. Fifth, a proposed standard curriculum on family and home management is developed with a goal to learn family or family-related living environment and resource management based upon national curriculum, and apply the knowledge to elementary school system. And its teaching contents are comprised of family understanding, family formation, family diversity, family science theory, communication and decision making, development of family living education, time and economic resource management, curriculum analysis, research and development of textbook, development of teaching notes. Evaluation methods are both written tests and performance evaluation including assignment evaluation and onsite evaluation. Having analyzed syllabus only, the research is lacking in actual comparison of real courses in field, ending up with proposing a standard curriculum. Arena for future research would be an in-depth interview, discussion with experts and validity test with experimental teaching.