본문 바로가기
  • Home

Reality of Korean Special Education as the Establishment of Subject Education for Students with Disabilities

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2012, 13(1), pp.1-18
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Byung-Ha Kim 1 도성화 2

1대구대학교
2대구한의대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper suggests that primarily the reality of Korean special education should be constructed throughout establishment of subject education for students with disabilities. As an attempt of realizing the above suggestion, the following three issues were discussed. First, current Korean special education has great confusion in terms of understanding subject education for students with disabilities. That is, subject education for students with disabilities has been mistakenly understood as therapeutic education for compensating disabilities of students and/or curriculum activities in spite of its conceptual and phenomenal difference. Second, for establishing subject education for students with disabilities competency and quality of special education teachers are considered as important components. In fact, special education teachers build the ethical meaning of subject education for students with disabilities. Therefore, establishing subject education for students with disabilities is an attempt of restoring (constructing) the essentials of education, which is finally the third discussing issue. In order to be ‘education among education,’ Korean special education should strongly connect the networks among education essentials- theory of teacher education-theory of subject education.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.