[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education is set to promote experiential reading and humanities education linked to this year’s curriculum.
The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education has established the ‘2023 Reading and Humanities Education Operation Plan’ and will implement 18 projects and 4 strategic projects under three tasks: school curriculum-linked reading education, building a support system for capacity enhancement and consensus formation, and spreading Ulsan reading and humanities education.
First, this year aims to operate one reading club per school across all elementary, middle, and high schools.
The one reading club per school initiative supports student-led activities such as reading discussions, book writing, recitation and reading aloud, appreciation of works, cultural exploration, and meetings with authors, activating student clubs focused on reading and humanities themes at each school.
Last year, elementary schools conducted club activities at the class level, and 113 clubs were operated in middle schools. This year, to strengthen the quality of club operations, 80,000 KRW per class will also be supported.
Along with publishing books authored by elementary, middle, and high school students linked to the one reading club per school, contests will also be held.
A new project this year will support school convergence reading education. Its purpose is to cultivate humanities literacy and comprehensive reading and writing skills, which are core competencies for the future, and to activate digital-based convergence reading and humanities education.
The goals include operating 60 classes practicing convergence reading education and 20 convergence reading education clubs, with operating expenses of 1,000,000 KRW provided per target group.
Reading education will be activated through diverse reading experiences, and a student recitation and reading aloud contest will be held to enhance students’ self-esteem.
In last year’s contest, 90 entries from elementary, 40 from middle, and 2 from high schools were submitted; 5 elementary and 5 middle and high school entries won awards, and 88% of participating students reported satisfaction above ‘satisfied.’
This year, the preliminary round will be moved to July and the final round to August to increase participation.
The Office of Education plans to operate the ‘Thinking Stump’ exhibition by region in connection with public libraries and related institutions to encourage broad participation from the educational community in promoting student-authored books and expanding student-centered humanities.
Schools wishing to utilize student-authored books will be supported with book lending, providing opportunities to access books written by peers.
In addition, the Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education plans to newly develop satisfaction indicators for reading and humanities projects to strengthen the systematic promotion of reading and humanities education policies in the coming year.
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