2019, Vol.3, No.

Multi-cultural Society and Education Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.74

pISSN : 2586-6206 / eISSN : 2713-7155
https://journal.kci.go.kr/MSES

Due to market opening and increasing international marriage, Korean society is gradually entering a multicultural society. The Ministry of Education. We announced the advancement plan, strengthened education for multicultural students, and carried out multicultural understanding education for all students. The purpose of this study is to grasp the reality of multicultural understanding education centering on elementary school and to present future directions. For this purpose, we examined how multicultural understanding education teachers are carrying out multicultural understanding education at the school site and examined whether their teaching goals and educational contents convey multicultural values in light of the conceptual model of multicultural education curriculum. The research method involved five instructors of multicultural understanding education as research participants, and conducted pre - interviews, class materials review, class observation and post - interviews after class observation. All the researchers introduced elementary school children 's culture of their native countries, and class focused on the culture of customs such as traditional costumes and food. Multicultural Understanding Education needs to consider diversity in terms of target students and culture. It is rather difficult to cultivate empathy and social ability in the global situation by one-time class of first-time students. In addition, It is necessary to make efforts to develop it.

In this study, a survey was conducted on the current condition of heritage language teaching for children of multicultural families at Korean and Japanese weekend schools in Hamburg. Observations and comparisons were made of heritage language teaching at both schools to confirm whether they were providing education in which the multicultural backgrounds of the students were sufficiently reflected. The observation method was an analysis of interviews with 20 students from each of the schools. The results of the interview analysis revealed that the Japanese weekend school was giving education to the students with consideration of the multicultural backgrounds of the students and that a majority of them had a positive image of Japan. On the other hand, the Korean weekend school did not seem to be giving proper education to the students with an understanding of their multicultural background as a positive asset. Therefore, to facilitate the teaching of Korean as a heritage language overseas, a method suitable for the global age is required that focuses on the current situation of the students and enables them to positively accept the multicultural background that they have, rather than implement ethnic education with priority given to the students’ parents or grandparents’ country of origin.

In 2018, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security reported that the number of foreigners staying in Korea stood at 1.86 million, or 3.6% of the total population. The 2018 Education, Statistics and Service data show that a total of 121,783 students from multicultural families are attending school education, accounting for 2.18% of the total number of students. 93,027 (3.43%), 18,068 middle school students (1.35%), and 10,688 high school students (0.6%). The language ability and difficulty in Korean language education of multicultural families are leading to difficulties in school life and the relationship between friends. Therefore, as a way to improve their language skills and Korean language education, it is suggested that multicultural families learn more by using children's literature and fairy tales. A learner-centered learning model using fairy tales was constructed to improve the language skills and Korean language education skills of multicultural families.The learning period consisted of 3 months, 12 weeks (12 time), 2 times a week, and 40 minutes of each class. Using this learning model, professor-learning will have beneficial meanings to improve the language skills and Korean language education of certain subjects such as multicultural families.