일반교육(general education)으로서의 초등교육의 개념

Abstract

Objectives This study discusses the nature of elementary education as general education from the perspective of modern elementary education.
 Methods This study was conducted through a literature review and was reviewed with a focus on data collected through various information searches, such as domestic and foreign books, dissertations, and papers published in academic journals related to research on the basic characteristics and concepts of elementary education.
 Results As a result, elementary education as general education is an education that is conceptualized as encom-passing character, intelligence, and the competencies that have recently been emphasized in the historical con-texts of education. First, elementary education as general education is education that respects human values and creates human identity. Second, elementary education as general education is an education that lays the founda-tion for acquiring knowledge needed in a changing modern society, developing a more comprehensive per-spective based on the acquired knowledge, and enhancing intelligence in the course of life. Third, elementary ed-ucation as general education is a competency-based general education that strengthens competencies in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, which has been recently emphasized.
 Conclusions Elementary education as general education needs to focus on the practical aspects of education rather than the theoretical aspects of liberal education or liberal education, so that knowledge such as skills, abil-ities, and attitudes can be utilized more effectively and comprehensively beyond simply theoretical knowledge. Practical competency-based elementary education is the modern concept of general education.