Emphasizing Ecological Transition and Intelligent Information Education
High Schools Also Specify 'Labor Rights Education'
Providing Educational Opportunities for All
The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced the promulgation of the 'Seoul Elementary, Middle, High School, and Special Education Curriculum' in accordance with the revised 2022 curriculum. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education focuses on 'Ecological Transition Education,' which pursues sustainability between humans and nature in the classroom, and 'Intelligent Information Education,' which develops digital literacy skills.
According to the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on the 18th, the revised curriculum announced by the Ministry of Education in 2022 will be fully implemented starting with grades 1 and 2 in elementary school this year, followed by grade 1 in middle and high school next year. Schools at the frontline will organize and operate their school curricula autonomously, considering their individual circumstances and conditions based on this curriculum.
The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education declared 'Inclusion, Coexistence, and Initiative' as the core values of the Seoul curriculum. The focus of the composition is on happy learners, providing educational opportunities for all, and establishing a curriculum system created together. It also announced plans to activate student-participatory classes and conduct assessments that support students' learning and growth.
Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Elementary School Curriculum [Source=Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education]
The operational principles include ▲Autonomy ▲Responsibility ▲Appropriateness ▲Democracy ▲Openness. The emphasized areas are ▲Basic literacy education ▲Reading, discussion, and writing education ▲Democratic citizenship education ▲Ecological transition education ▲Safety and health education ▲History and unification education ▲Arts education ▲Character education ▲Intelligent information education ▲Career (vocational) education, among others.
The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education particularly emphasized ecological transition education. Previously, Cho Hee-yeon, Superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, announced the 'Mid- to Long-term Development Plan for Ecological Transition Education (2020-2024)' and pledged to expand ecological and environmental education. This plan aims to focus education on the coexistence and sustainability of humans and nature in response to the increasingly severe climate crisis.
Regarding intelligent information education, the curriculum focuses on basic literacy, attitudes, utilization education, and ethics education related to artificial intelligence and data. The revised curriculum finalized in 2022 was amended to enable personalized education for students by improving classroom instruction based on digital and artificial intelligence.
Additionally, the high school 'Career and Vocational Education' explicitly states that labor rights education, which helps understand the meaning and value of work and labor, can be conducted.
Furthermore, the curriculum includes educational content for each school level in elementary, middle, high schools, and special education schools.
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