초등영어 지도를 통한 다문화의 이해-그림책 읽기를 통하여-

Abstract

Globalization has brought the movement of the world population from this place to that place for a variety of reasons including political, economical and cultural necessities. Therefore, most countries in the world have to inevitably contact and recognize the people of different cultures within their borders. Korea has suffered the break of the long tradition of one blood and one culture nation-state because of rapid increase of international marriage and inflow of large foreign work forces. Korean schools have to accept the children from multiculture families in their classroom, which aroused many sorts of academic and social problems in the school arena. The so called mixed blood children and children from foreign working people can not catch up with the academic performance of Korean peers and are often discriminated by their host peers for the reason that their colors, appearances and cultures are different from them. This study is focusing on how to provide Korean and multicultural children with a global citizenship education. Korean government is developing some administrative strategies for helping multiculture children adapt to Korean classroom and culture. But the global education of our children which helps them to tolerate human and cultureal diversity and respect their peers is not yet prepared properly. I suggest one of the answers to global citizenship education could be found in the English classroom by teaching multiculture through using multicultural picture story books. Actually I and my co-worker elementary school teacher could find very positive results from the classroom activities by applying multicultural literature.