창의적 교육환경을 위한 초등학교 학년별 교육공간 특성에 관한 연구

Abstract

Recently, the Ministry of Education announced a revised curriculum stressing the need for creative education. Accordingly, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education is attempting to create an environment where creative education is possible through remodeling classrooms with a ‘Dreaming Classroom’ project. Therefore, this study analyzed educational spaces for each grade of elementary school to improve the creative educational environment. Previous studies were used to redefine the characteristics of creative educational spaces, enabling analysis considering the characteristics of each grade. This study focusses on elementary schools, where the 'Dreaming Classroom' project was applied to both lower and upper grade classrooms, and particularly zeroed in on classrooms and hallways. The analysis results are as follows. First, the lower grades have characteristics of early childhood, play learning was made possible by spatial improvement centered on ‘playfulness’. Accordingly, the lower classroom needs to plan a space for separate play learning by integrating underused classrooms in consideration of the decreasing number of students due to the recent change in the low birth rate era. Second, as upper grade students become more sociable and athletic, communication-oriented group learning was made possible by spatial improvement centered around the ‘autonomy’. In addition, the upper classrooms require floor heating to facilitate indoor activities; this is especially important considering problems of fine dust and other outdoor climate concerns. In this way, if the curriculum is revised to better capture social changes within the educational space, including in consideration of the differences by grade, schools will become places of enjoyment, education and effective learning.